Mandy Ashton fled a stifling frontier existence for the flittering social whirl of Sacramento City, California's state capital, trading childhood innocence for a woman's burning desire. Though it's risky to masquerade as her flighty cousin, Julia. Mandy is determined to give her cousin a chance at happiness with the man she loves. But Mandy is hardly faint of heart-proven time and again on a journey fraught with deadly adventure and sublime temptation.
Travis Langley, know by his Indian name, Hawk, is a white man raised by the Cheyenne, a man trying to make peace with his dual heritage. The last thing he needs is a job chaperoning Julia Ashton, the California governor's spoiled daughter. But Mandy-posing as Julia- is spirited, captivating and irresistibly sensuous. By journey's end, Mandy and Hawk have become helpless prisoners of a smoldering passion that nothing can kill-except, perhaps, the secret Mandy has guarded so carefully throughout the arduous days and passionate nights of their long magnificent passage.