A ruthless profiteer and English spy fallen upon hard times, a murdered antiquarian's daughter, a former slave and jockey seeking justice for his dead wife, and an Irish horsewhisperer so blinded by the curse for betraying his own kind that he can't seem to notice the disturbingly attractive stable lad curled on his bed. All of them converging on Saratoga Springs in 1865 for the first race meet since the war has ended. Can Rose Adair trust Lane Fallon, who she last saw dragged off to be hanged as a Confederate spy when he impulsively claims to be her husband in order to thwart her grasping cousin?