Nick Darcy, an agent of the Gateway organization, is awakened at night by a terrible scratching at the door. On the threshold, he discovers a wounded, bleeding young woman, whom he is surprised to recognize as his battle friend McKenna Rigsby. But is it only friendship that binds the aristocrat Darcy and the country girl? Mutually afraid of being rejected, they never opened up to each other about their feelings. Now McKenna works for the FBI and is embedded in the Blue Ridge gang, which terrorizes the mountainous regions of Tennessee. And now I’m sure that a man from the FBI shot at her...