Reece McBride left the south after the war with nothing but ashes and memories. He's built himself a new world around the credo, "Never care deeply about anything you can't bear to lose it." He didn't reckon on a lady journalist digging into his affairs or his past. Emma Parker is a journalist, and a journalist fights for the truth. And no sweet talking scoundrel is going to make her compromise her principles. Emma's determined quest for the salvation of Reece's soul is matched only by Reece's painful struggle to be the man Emma believes him to be.