Forbidden love, mystery and murder... Laurel Bray spent four years in exile from her Sea Island home in South Carolina. Now that the War between the States is over, she returns, only to discover her family home has been sold to Northern missionaries and Colonel Bray is missing. Union Officer Holt Flanagan has loved and lost and isn't interested in loving again. However, when he meets a woman desperate to find her father, he offers to help. But will she accept his help--a man she views as the enemy? Lies, secrets, and betrayal could undermine the search for Laurel's father. She will have to trust in Holt before the past has a chance to destroy their future.