The Schemers — Lois Wolfe

AMID THE TREACHERY AND TURMOIL OF WAR, THEY SURRENDERED TO A MAGNIFICENT LOVE....

She was a well-bred British beauty unwittingly lured into a dangerous secret mission. He was a half-breed Cherokee soldier sworn to avenge his tragic past. A world apart, they would fight each other as they fought their enemies--and lose their hearts in a raging firestorm of forbidden desire....

In the name of family loyalty, Devon Picard had agreed to board the Confederate train bound for North Carolina, little realizing the danger she was in...until she discovered that a brooding stranger named Gentry Morgan was following her ... until her train was
attacked by a ragtag band of renegades ... until she became Morgan's captive, sharing the sweat and dust of hot pursuit as he led her behind enemy lines--and into a dangerous midnight embrace that almost made her forget: He might be her enemy.

Against all reason, they surrendered to the passion that flared between them. But soon, enmeshed in the intricate schemes of foreign powers represented by ruthless men, they would find their lives threatened and their destinies sealed--in a showdown on the snow-packed plains of the Missouri Territory, where the bait was an innocent child.