Widow Emma Hammond had reluctantly accepted her place as a poor relation to be given away in an arranged marriage. She didn't think she could escape her fate—until she meets gypsy Chal Pannell. Even though he vows revenge against her family for taking a gypsy boy from his tribe, he awakens Emma's passionate fantasies...and a risqué tryst in the woods proves he desires her just as strongly! When the boy goes missing, Emma and the wild stranger set off to recover him as unlikely allies—and uninhibited lovers....