Revenge...War...Love!In 1781, Doctor John Powers came to Natchez looking for a young woman named Stella Wright. He planned to use her to obtain harrowing revenge on the man who had betrayed him.Dr. Powers had with him Faith Gordon, a bewitching girl he had won in a dice game. She had agreed to pose as his bride and hoped to make the pose come true.Suddenly Natchez was caught up in the bloody fighting of the American Revolution, and the doctor found himself leading a band of men, women and children - including both Faith and Stella - through five hundred miles of forest fires, raging floods, treachery and Indian attacks.In love with both Stella and Faith, passionately tempted by each, Dr. Powers leads his charges up the Natchez Trace to safety in Georgia. And at the journey's end he makes the right choice.