Kristie Somers is happy in her life. She has a promising career ahead of her, grandparents who love her-and no time for a man. Or so she thought until an ancient Haitian amulet dropped her in the year 1864 at the close of the Civil War. The handsome Union colonel, Eric Langston, was a man to be hated. Her grandparents told her so. Her family had despised him for generations. He commanded the Yankee regiment that invaded her ancestral home; he condoned the savage abuse of the plantation women; he was responsible for Whispering Willows burning to the ground. Why then, does her heart pound every time he enters a room? Why do his fiery kisses stir her like no man's ever have before? Could she have been wrong about him? Could her ancestors have been wrong? Kristie is determined to find out-and she has to do it before the complex secrets that are Eric Langston cause him to drink himself to a premature death.