Aristocrat Tyrell MacKenzie decided to return wealth to his family who suffered in the Civil War. While hunting for the magnificent mustang Lucifer, Tyrell was captured by the rebel Cascabel. Having gone through torture, he most likely would have died as a hero, if not for Zhanna - an orphan in dusty rags, a gray-eyed girl, looking like a thin teenager, who selflessly took care of him. Femininity, unexpectedly awakening in Zhanna, pushes her into the arms of a stunning handsome man. But she is a bruya, a witch, the Shadow of Fire, as the Indians call her, and she understands that Tyrell’s dream is a real lady in silks and diamonds, and not a free girl of the wild prairies of Utah. And yet, in the flames of passion, all the arguments of reason perish...