Quintana Wade is living in London, but she isn’t living the high life. In fact, as the daughter of an infamous turncoat—a British officer who went over to the Rebels—she is very close to poverty.Each night she waits out the darkness before lighting her precious store of candles, and her once efficient staff of twenty has been whittled down to four. Life is not what it once was, and she blames her reduced circumstances on her father, Colonel Winston “Wolverine” Wade, who chose the American Wilderness over his wife and only child.On a cold and wintry night, as Quintana awaits the moment to light the tallow dips, a visitor arrives. . . a magnificent dark-haired man, who Quintana assumes is a bill collector, until informed that Captain Draper Catworth Boone is her father’s emissary, sent to bring her home to Fort Pitt. Sexual tension crackles between them, and Draper’s seductive ways are hard to resist. As hardheaded as her father, Quintana is not about to surrender without a fight. She detests her father for his abandonment of her and her mother, and she is incensed that he would attempt to control her now. Draper’s orders, however, are explicit, and he is bound to carry them out. But the colonel’s lovely daughter is cold as ice. She tries to evict Draper at gunpoint, and nearly succeeds in blowing his head off.What she doesn’t realize is that there is more at stake for Draper than meets the eye. His life, his good name, his honor, hang in the balance, and the same father she hates with such vehemence will ruin him if he does not succeed in delivering his daughter to America and into the hands of a fiancée who awaits her arrival. Though she battles him at every turn, Quintana cannot win the contest of wills between them, and soon finds herself in the heart of Draper’s wilderness. Confronted by the harsh realities of an untamed and unforgiving land, Quintana’s impetuosity triggers a tragic loss, a loss that will change everything for her. In the shadow of the great Blue Ridge, Quintana’s resistance is quickly worn away, and she gives herself to Draper. Yet, as sexual heat turns to deep and abiding love, new dangers threaten: her father will not condone a match between his daughter and a lowly frontier drifter, when a more suitable match has been arranged. Wolverine Wade warns Draper away from Quintana, and when the lovers defy him, Draper is jailed. Quintana is heartsick, and will do anything to gain his freedom, including bargaining away her future. She will go through with the arranged marriage, if Draper is released, but not at Fort Pitt. Heart sore, but resigned to her fate, Quintana travels with her fiancée, Uriah Bell to his home in the Wyoming Valley, and straight into trouble. Now, it is Draper’s turn to sacrifice everything to rescue her, a desperate gamble that may cost him everything.Warning: Sexual content.