When Caitlyn O'Connor lost her fiancée to the Continental Army, she didn't realize how close the British would come and infiltrate themselves into her life. But the dragoon led by the notorious Colonel William Barrington sets up camp right on her property. Politically naive, she is taught the rules of war by the dangerous colonel whose brutal tactics and questionable morals are scandalous. Now under his constant scrutiny, will she fall for his seductions or continue to embrace her father's beliefs?