England was a strange new world - for one accustomed to buckskin and bare feet! Fortune McQueen grew up in the North Carolina wilderness, the daughter of trappers who'd saved her from the savages who murdered her mother. The mountain men were Fortune's only family - until Kane Warrick claimed her as the granddaughter of an English lord. Suddenly, she found herself heir to the family mill now in the greedy clutches of her evil cousin Manville! With proper clothing and gentle instruction from Kane, Fortune blossomed into a beautiful lady. But the innocent lass had much to learn about civilization... and men. Some men, she soon discovered, could be ruthless and dangerous. While others, like Kane Warrick, could set her heart beating in the most unsettling of ways...