Runaway

New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham recreates the tumultuous history of Americas least-known frontier, Florida, in a love story that burns with passion and truth. I accepted you as payment on a gambling table because youre incredibly beautiful. And I want you for the same reason. His smoldering gaze claimed her long before a poker hand made her his. Tara Brent knew she could never escape this dark and brooding stranger who promised her safety, with a price: marriageand life together in the lush, lethal wilderness of Florida. She didnt even know his name, only the promise of passion, and refuge in his arms. Jarret McKenzie swept his ravishing bride away from New Orleans to his remote Florida plantation, determined to uncover the desperate secret from which she ran. But he couldnt tell her of his own Seminole rootsor open her guarded heartuntil his former commander, President Andrew Jackson, declared war on the Indians, and a powerful enemy from Taras past found his way to their door.