Book excerpt: It wasn't easy growing up the daughter of a traitor and Quintana Wade has struggled just to keep a roof over her head... so when the father who abandoned her to join the cause of American liberty sends an emissary to "fetch her home" Quintana launches her own full scale rebellion. Draper Boone is unlike any man Quintana has ever encountered. Devastatingly handsome, exotic, and wild, the militia captain is more than a match for her in every way. Sexual tension crackles between them, and Draper's seductive ways are hard to resist. As hardheaded as her father, Quintana is not about to surrender without a fight. What she doesn't realize is that there is more at stake for Draper than meets the eye. His life, his good name, his honor, hang in the balance, and the same father she hates with such vehemence will ruin him if he does not succeed in delivering his daughter to America and into the hands of a fiancee who awaits her arrival."