Samantha Granger has finally come to terms with being different. The only way to keep her situation under control is to stay far away from Trevor Hamilton or risk bringing Digital Diva out of retirement. She gets her wish when the government gets involved. They've discovered Sam's identity and threaten to expose her if she doesn't cooperate.

When Romance author Elliot Jentry’s husband is killed in the line of duty, Elliot decides to leave the painful memories behind and move to Louisiana with her two children. She purchases a derelict plantation home in the hopes of starting a new life. The old home, originally named Sophie but now known as Purgatory, was owned by the family of pirate Louis-Michel Aury for two hundred years. The old house, built with the blood money of pirates, is full of legends and ghosts, as Elliot quickly discovers.

Mountain man Zachariah Connelly regretted his contract to captain Dwayne Marley's Santa Fe trading caravan without complete authority to say who would be part of the company. Unfortunately, Marley had hired the crew before he'd hired Zach. They were a rough mix of mountain men, greenhorns, and fortune hunters.

The daughter of a Charleston society belle and a Spanish diplomat, Savanah spent the first twelve years of her life on a ranchero built on her father's Spanish land grant in Mexico before being sent to live in Charleston to learn to be a lady.