The beautiful Kiernan Miller, standing at the altar with Jess Cameron, vowed that her husband would only receive her body, but not her soul. Because this marriage was an insane step of desperation - only desperation could force a young widow to marry a mortal enemy, a southerner who had gone over to the Yankee side. But Jess, literally obsessed with love, firmly believed that sooner or later his ardent passion would ignite a reciprocal flame in the heart of the obstinate Kiernan...