Lovers, enemies, they were wrenched apart by treachery...and a great nation at war!

Her hair was like white gold spun by moonlight, her skin like golden summer peaches, but beneath her soft, radiant beauty, Celia Bartlett would discover a will of iron...

Shamed by a brutal act of lust, she had been forced to betray her beloved Rafe. Outraged by savage injustice, she would be forced to betray her beloved Vicksburg.

As a nation's passions erupted in civil war, Celia would be torn from Rafe Lattimore's tender embrace, driven to turn renegade, plunged into battle...dreaming only of the day when there would be an end to bloodshed, an end to the agony of longing...when two hearts, tested by pain and bitter separation could be joined again in the fulfillment of purest love and rapturous desire...