Publisher's Synopsis
When his beautiful young wife dies in childbirth, Captain Samuel Walton is grief-stricken, as he faces the task of bringing up his two daughters alone. Fifteen years later, Flora has inherited her mother's tempestuous temperament, while her elder sister Josie has her father's sensible nature. Josie worries that her sister may be led astray, but even she could not predict how a meeting between Flora and a seductive stranger would plunge the whole family into danger. Meanwhile, Josie is drawn to handsome American Jacob Goodwright, unaware that he hides a dark secret...
