Description
The year is 1780. The scene: the war-town Southern Colonies, a land of fiercely divided loyalties, where the intense passions engendered by years of conflict mount to their explosive climax.
Into this fiery crucible come David Cortlandt, town between his duty as a doctor and his needs as a man; Roxanna, beautiful, bewitching and tormenting; Meg, using her body as the stake in a desperate game; and Toby Bowman, a secret agent equally at home on either side of the lines, equally at home, too, in the arms of many different women…