Samantha Allyn was an innocent when she was captured by the Apaches. By the time she was returned to the white world, she was a woman, her body brutally used but still enticing, her spirit cruelly wounded but still stubbornly strong as she faced a society that welcomed her with false kindness and masked condemnation.

Lieutenant Tom Royal was the man who was to have married her, and suddenly found he could not. Torn between his vows as an officer and a gentleman and his primal male emotions, he found escape in the spreading conflagration of battle as redman and white man clashed in the great struggle for the west.

Both these people -- a fiercely courageous woman and a desperately tormented man -- had to find their destinies in a time of testing in an untamed land, and in the uncharted regions of their own innermost hearts....