For lovers of true romance comes an intense and thrilling love story that will steal your breath away! Immerse yourself in a time and place of fierce warriors, daring women, dark passions, and love that conquers all.North America is verdant once again after the devastating pandemic of decades earlier. The territories are now ruled by lords, daring men of strength and action. Victor Strongheart is lord of Daniel's Fork, a territory settled after the pandemic in what is today western Tennessee.To cement a traditional treaty, he agrees to marry the beautiful Annasai, a princess of the new Choctaw people. But at the betrothal feast, her cousin, the exotic and fiery Setiyah, dances around the fire, under the stars. Strongheart watches as one enthralled. He knows well that the heart is a treacherous thing, and his has just betrayed him. But Setiyah is forbidden fruit; one he can only taste at the risk of disaster.