A NATION IN FLAMESA savage assault foretold the end of a way of life for Julie Marshall, whose brother Myles had been branded a traitor, whose home, Rose Hill, was threatened by the onset of war and greed, and whose destiny would bring her from battlefield to brothel as a spy in the service of both sides.A WOMAN IN CONFLICTEngaged to marry a fortune-hunter to save her beloved plantation from ruin, Julie set sail on the Ariane, a blockade-running frigate bound for London - and her hated fiance. But her journey was interrupted by Captain Derek Arnhardt, whose warm caress she met with a raging fire of her own.A MAN IN LOVEArnhardt had never really loved a woman, the sea was his lover...until he was shipwrecked on the Gulf Stream with Julie. Together they plunged recklessly into a passion neither could control, tempting fate and British cannons from Bermuda to Savannah...to the shadowy intrigue that could divide them forever - or seal at last the love that set their souls aflame!