IT SURVIVED THE RAVAGES OF WAR, NOW IT FACED THE FURIES OF REVENGE. To Cassandra Bowsmith, the kidnapped Yankee beauty, the lavish plantation stood for everything she had loved and lost... Once, its master had saved her life, and possessed her heart. Since then, they had been forced from Riverrun, and driven apart by the man who had been her first lover, a man now bent on revenge. And now Cassandra lived for a single, compelling dream... Alone in the stricken South, Cass returned to claim that dream. In a world seething with savage lusts, surrounded by men who would stop at nothing to destroy her, she risked her all for a daring vision of the land she was destined to share...