When fulfilling a favor on her behalf godfather puts Catherine Edilean Harcourt in peril, the southern bell must decide if trusting an alleged, however attractive, convict will be the best or most severe decision she’s ever made.

Charleston, 1799. A girl of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt does not have any insufficient suitors in the home in Virginia, waiting around to satisfy her imagine marriage and family members. But Cay’s adventurous spirit, fostered by developing up with her three brothers, is normally about The Fragrance of Jasmine piqued while going to her godfather in SC. Bedridden having a broken lower leg, he asks Cay to complete for him on an immediate task: on her method to a fancy dress ball, she must deliver a packed horse to a vintage friend’s son-who also ıs definitely an escaped convict billed with murdering his wife! Cay agrees to the program, which doesn’t’ move whatsoever as planned… whereupon she finds herself fleeing Alexander McDowell’s captors, traveling blind in to the night using the fugitive Scotsman. Through she should dread him, Cay finds herself overwhelmingly attracted to Alex, and attracted into his tale of misguided justice and his innocence as they seek refuge in the steamy Florida everglades. Will trusting him end up being the worst mistake of her existence? Or will falling in love become the salvation both of these have been looking for?