Penniless, her parents and brother dead, Sophia Whitfield struggles to save her beloved childhood home, Arbor Rose, during the Civil War. Another bluecoat is staggering down the hill, but before Sophia allows him to rob and pilfer like the others, she shoots him. How was she to know it was Gavin, the dark knight of her youth, carrying secrets too horrific to imagine and a passion that ignites her deepest desires?
As Sophia gradually learns Gavin's his artful seduction in the bedroom, she discovers how to finally know her own heart. But then she discovers the terrible secret he harbors, and she begins to hate him. Can she survive the Land of Falling Stars, or will she lose it all to the horrors of the War and Reconstruction? And will the Southern lady and the Yankee soldier be able to recapture the bliss of their youth - this time in each other's arms?
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