Brought up amid the blissful luxury of plantation lifestyle, Marianne Johnston never questions her sheltered existence until, driven by her conscience, she joins the Underground Railroad. Quickly Marianne is normally living a dangerous double existence, assisting slaves flee by night time and acting the belle by day time. And there is nothing riskier than her attraction to wild, heartless young Southerner Yves Chamard-while being courted by his noble older brother. Right now Marianne is frantically trying to resist Yves’s seduction, realizing that her surrender to his contact may cost her everything .

Gretchen Craig comes back with another sweeping tale that brings the Old South to life in all its glory-and a passionate heroine compelled to follow her heart . . .