Widow Emma Hammond had reluctantly accepted her place as a poor relation to be given away in an arranged marriage. She didn't think she could escape her fate - until she meets gypsy Chal Pannell. Even though he vows revenge against her family for taking a gypsy boy from his tribe, he awakens Emma's passionate fantasies...and a risqué tryst in the woods proves he desires her just as strongly! When the boy goes missing, Emma and the wild stranger set off to recover him as unlikely allies - and uninhibited lovers....