Mariette Fortune knows her brother will die if she doesn't rescue him. But she didn't count on falling in love with the Spaniard guarding the English prisoners. A man whose life depends on keeping those prisoners from escaping. Now she must choose between them. Alejandro de Silva knows there is more to the lovely Mestiza woman he has hired to keep his house...more than she will admit. Regardless, he cannot help falling in love with her. But he never dreams she is an English spy and that her presence in Spanish St. Augustine will put both their lives in deadly peril.