Enduring harsh winters and British taxation, widow Constance Proctor had overcome the dangers of homesteading New Hampshire's wilderness with cool composure and quick thinking...until the day she met Jean-Luis D'Epier. The handsome French trapper made her heart race but his secretive nature kept her Patriot blood wary--for how could she shelter a traitor to the colonies? Yet she knew the real danger of this rugged man lay in his heated kisses, which carried her to the heights of passions she had never before known...