Tall, wickedly handsome and genteel, Southern gentleman Justin Stearns is shocked when he overhears a scoundrel offering to sell his sister for $700. Always the hero, Justin pays the rascal and saves the innocent waif? But that innocent waif turns out to be a sensuous, spirited, flame-haired seductress named Megan O'Rourke?who upon first meeting Justin, holds him up at gunpoint, steals his trousers and disappears into the South Carolina night! Enraged at playing the fool, Justin vows vengeance on the stunningly beautiful Yankee con woman?though he's not entirely sure himself if he's searching for revenge or another carnal moment with the voluptuous redhead? But Justin is skilled in the art of seduction too! And with passionate caresses and red-hot kisses, the plantation owner intends to show this sexy redheaded Yankee the error of her ways-and just how sweet surrender in his arms can be?