Rosa Carter plans for the day she can leave the Alamo to find a better, safer life elsewhere. But her stepfather, a man with a mean streak as wide as the Texas sky, has hidden her mother away in order to force Rosa to deliver valuable information about the Alamo's garrison and ammunitions stores. Chances of escape look impossible. Miles Fitch hopes to regain his father's land in south Texas, so he joins the fight for freedom from Mexico. Inside the Alamo, he is drawn to a dark-eyed beauty named Rosa... until he begins to suspect that she is betraying the cause of the Texans and feeding information to the Mexican army. Forced to leave the mission, Rosa watches helplessly as Santa Anna's army closes in. Will the man she love somehow escape or survive the battle? And if he does, how will she ever prove to him that she is not a traitor? From the siege of the Alamo to the battlefield of San Jacinto, this epic story of Texas's struggle for independence shows that freedom and love are always worth fighting for.