On a wagon train from Lousisiana to Texas, Rachel meets a stranger. She is unnerved - and fascinated - by the intensity of his sapphire gaze. Over the course of hot, sun-baked days and cool, starlit nights, embers of desire flare into forbidden passion. Forbidden because Rachel is the sheltered daughter of New Orleans aristocracy - and because her "stranger"; is the infamous outlaw "Kid"; Davis, now a captive facing a death sentence. But the princess and the prisoner have more in common than meets the eye. And even as Rachel becomes his hostage in a daring escape to Mexico, she yearns to uncover the mystery that haunts him, the secret that keeps his soul in a prison all on its own...
