The bloodied stranger emerged like a shadow from the dark, rainy night, and Elizabeth Jarrett's life began a dizzying dance to a haunting refrain from the distant past.... Exactly one hundred years earlier, to the hour, Elizabeth's great- grandmother had opened her home—and her heart—to a wounded desperado. In opening the door to this desperate stranger on this stormy night, was Elizabeth about to discover that the ghostly goings-on at Rose Haven were, more than eerie plantation lore? Was it possible—was it fated—that a legendary love affair was about to be relived?