Heading home to Texas after the Civil War, Confederate Captain Ben Chandler catches Clarity Breckenridge stealing the stallion he bought in Kentucky. Clarity says she owns the horse but everyone else claims that Clarity is dead. When a killer tries to permanently keep her from proving her identity, Ben whisks her--and her horse--to Texas.
Ben's family is dead, his lover is gone and he suffered so many near-misses during the war that he just wants to hide back home. When Clarity's presence threatens to bring him painfully back to life, he resists his growing attraction to her.
Meanwhile Clarity's vow to return home and prove her identity is strained by her growing attraction to Ben. But a near rape years earlier makes her afraid that she could not be a whole woman for him, so she pulls back, too. Fleeing a killer and their own pasts, can they reclaim Clarity's identity and find love and new lives together?
