Could the most brilliant of Southern ladies, the lovely Laurel Sinclair, have imagined that one day the hardships of the Civil War would force her to accept the strange and dangerous offer of a robber from the Wild West, who wanted to break into the high society of the South under an assumed name?

Could she have imagined that the clever swindler whom she was forced to help would soon become her protector, friend - and a man who awakened a burning flame of passion in her soul...