Ferel McCauley was an impulsive, fiery beauty who yearned for passion and freedom - until she met the handsome, magnetic Matt Savage. However, the colonies were fighting a brutal battle for survival, and there was little time for promises of forever.

Frightened and abandoned, Ferel was desperate for a commitment from the man she loved. But would the war lead her on a more dangerous, daring road? Out of desperation and loneliness she turned her broken heart to another, punishing them both. Then she was forced to fight a private, agonizing war of her own as she struggled to recapture the one man she would forever love.