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Raff MacQuaid is a man torn between two cultures. His mother, a Cherokee, kept the young Raff with her people until he was forced by his father, a wealthy planter on the frontier of South Carolina, to be schooled in the arts of gentlemanly conduct in England. After returning to his mother's people and finding her dead, Raff has nothing but contempt for his father and the way he treats the Cherokee. Still he returns to his father's house when summoned because he fears something has happened to his brother's pregnant wife. But his father, debilitated with a broken leg wants Raff to go to Charleston and escort his wife-to-be, Lady Caroline Simmons back to the frontier. Raff at first refuses, but as his father sings the praises of the refined Lady Caroline, comparing her to the savages he lives among, Raff sees the perfect opportunity to avenge his mother. He will seduce Lady Caroline.
After her father's death Lady Caroline Simmons discovers she and her beloved younger brother have nothing but debt. She is forced to have a factor make an arranged marriage for her with a wealthy planter in the colonies who agrees to pay her father's debts and continue paying for her brother's schooling. When she arrives in the New World, alone and penniless, Caroline is greeted by a man she assumes she is to wed, but soon discovers he is the son of the man she must marry. Raff has come to Charleston for more reasons than escorting his father's bride. Knowing the power of the British and the tensions between them and the Indians, he continually tries to bring about a treaty between the Cherekee and England...one that will be fair to his mother's people and that the British will honor. After meeting Caroline he feels some compassion for her and tries to get her to return to England. When she refuses his request he has no choice but to take her to his father. Seducing Caroline is easy. She is an innocent, and though Raff made no promises, he knows she thinks he will marry her. But despite the feeling he has for her, Raff leaves Caroline with his father, and returns to the Cherokee with the govenor's offer of peace. Caroline is heart broken, but she quickly learns that life on the frontier is hard. She has a friend in Mary, Raff's sister-in-law, and the Cherokee women who come to help at the plantation. She finds her future husband contemptable, and those feelings spread to the son, Raff, who seduced her, then brought her here. Raff returns when the threat of war between the Cherokee and English intesifies. He wants to take Caroline and Mary to Charleston, out of harm's way. But by this time Mary is too pregnant to travel and Caroline has wed Raff's father, though in name only. Caroline knows she has to submit to her husband because she is pregnant. Both women refuse to leave when Raff heads to Charleston to take the Cherokee response to the English governor. While he is gone, renegade Cherikee warriors attack the plantation, kill Raff's father and capture Caroline. Raff goes after Caroline as the frontier ignites into warfare.
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