A legendary swordsman and lover, born to a life of chance and adventure, Lt. Jared Hale of the Royal Dragoons could never have forseen his unlikely fate. A duel with the wrong man led to Newgate Prison...and to the ravishing Caroline Murtagh, who would bring him—her indentured servant—to America's untamed shores.

He found freedom only in battle, leading a ragtag colonial militia into war against the French and Indians in the bloody Quebec campaign. Jared Hale was a hero—yet still a slave. He was bound to a temptress whose savage mercies drove him wild with desire and rage...a woman whose arrogant beauty would prove the greatest challenge of all.