Filigree — Debra Hamilton

Back in England after a boyhood in the Colonies, Courtland Day was a man without a country. Until hunger for revenge and a dangerous spying mission brought him back to Massachusetts on the eve of war and straight into the path of a Colonial bullet. Badly wounded, Courtland stumbled into the forest hut of the lovely Chaynoa, who tended and healed him. Yet even after he'd left -- haunted by memories of Chaynoa's gentle touch -- Courtland did not know why she hid in such a desolate place or what she so desperately feared. Though Chaynoa could not forget the tender British soldier she'd nursed back to health, the half-breed outcast never dreamed that fate would bring them together again or that Courtland would risk his life to save her from the hangman's noose. Now, as Courtland's kisses lit a fire deep within her, Chaynoa dared to imagine that happiness could be hers. But as the land flamed into revolution, divided loyalties and a mysterious secret threatened the fragile bonds of her forbidden love.