Noble Banning and his men have been forced to don the hated Yankee blue and fight on the Western frontier, or else spend the rest of the war in a hellish Union prison. At first, he didn't give Juliet Crowley a second look: their Yankee commanding officer's daughter is nothing like the hoop-skirted belles back home. But Noble is attracted more and more to the passionate, embraceable woman. If Noble can't have Juliet for his own, all else fades into insignificance—even the side he calls his own.