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.