Jeffers Georgia, 1866 She'd never give in Camilla Langesford has no intention of letting her ailing father's new Yankee partner steal their plantation. But Patrick O'Grady isn't like other carpetbaggers. His powerful body, brooding Irish Temper, and pewter-gray eyes speak of a shadowed past. And his soul-searing kiss melts her frozen heart-until a deadly secret shatters it. He'd never give up Langesford Plantation is the former Pinkerton agent's last chance to solve a mystery that's haunted him for four years. But Patrick O'Grady didn't plan on a chestnut-haired virgin with smoldering green eyes and a fiery temper, dogging his every step. Or that just one kiss would show him a treasure worth more than a cache of gold bars-until one night changes everything.