When sheltered southern belle Teela Warren travels from Virginia and gets a taste of the lush, exotic Florida Territory, her senses are dazzled. When she glimpses Seminole half-breed James McKenzie, the most attractive man she's ever seen, her heart is in danger. His forbidden passion ignites her soul, but the ravaging violence of the Indian Wars sweeps between them, powerful and destructive of everything in its path but the truest, most transcendent love.