The Revolutionary War rages, Patriot spy, Lord Joshua Rutland, poses as a trapper, traveling the territories & collecting intelligence—but also searching for the man who killed his beloved betrothed. His need for vengeance drives him until he finds a red-haired beauty who tempts him to open his hardened heart. Lady Juliet Faulkner has been sold into indenture where she slaves on a wild outpost never expecting to find a hero in a mysterious buckskin-clad warrior.