Who can they trust? The riverboat gambler, the Cajun with the fast knife, the voodoo priestess, or the exiled Royalist with secrets of his own?

Taylor Brannon, re-enacting as a memorial to her beloved brother, hides a life-long secret—she has the frightening ability to touch objects and see the owner’s departed spirit. She has decided to use her ‘gift’ to contact her brother and heal the rift between them. But instead of laying her brother’s memory to rest, she can only stand by, helpless, as her entire re-enacting unit is taken over by spirits of the dead. Is she the cause, or is it this man who claims to be the legendary ghost of Jared Beaudry? Man or ghost, one thing is clear—Beaudry is careening down a path of revenge and self-destruction.

Taylor finds herself fighting for the life—and love—of a ghost. But the cost could be her sanity, or even her soul.”

Everything changes when she agrees to accompany her married sister to Oregon to rejoin her abusive husband, a trip that takes them through the wilds of Nevada’s High Desert. A trip that has the sister and her daughters stolen by outlaws and strands Edwina in the desert winter. Dressed as a boy, driving a buggy destined for a ‘calico queen,’ and taking care of a man she thinks is an outlaw, she is hard put to keep on lying to Tal Jones, her captive, a blind gunfighter.

Wanting nothing more than to make enough money to go south where it’s warm, Tal agreed to protect the freight wagons of whiskey, but he didn’t expect to get shot in the head, lose his eye-sight, and wind up with a boy who was becoming more and more attractive every minute. And, of course, that isn’t right.

In the four years since he earned his sergeant’s stripes at the bloody siege of Seringapatam, young Richard Sharpe has lead a peaceful existence. But this relatively easy life meets with a brutal end when he is the sole survivor of a murderous attack at the hands of Major William Dodd, a cold-blooded English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation.

Sharpe rises from the killing field at Fort Chasalgaon vowing to avenge his dead comrades, even if it means pursuing the turncoat Dodd to the very ends of the continent. It is a quest that takes him deep into the heart of enemy territory, where the accepted rules of engagement have been discarded, where ever-shifting loyalties create an environment of dangerous uncertainty, forcing Sharpe to guard against attacks from enemy and friend.