Lucilla now knew that her life had been empty before she came to Ecuador.

At home in England, she was little more than a maid for her beautiful, temperamental older sister. But here in Ecuador, life was one glorious adventure after another -- beginning with her rescue of a handsome Spanish officer, Don Carlos.

Now the fate of Simon Bolivar's entire rebel army was in Lucilla's hands -- as well as the life of the man she loved.