Kitty and Travis, united at last, have found happiness on her ancestral North Carolina farm --- until the lure of adventure takes Travis to Haiti. When Travis returns, he finds his beautiful bride has been abducted by the murderous, swaggering Luke Tate. Distraught when he is shown Kitty"s grave, Travis is haunted by crushing memories of the one woman who ever filled his heart. And he knows he can never belong to another woman --- even the lovely Marilee, whom he marries. The stunning climax to the love story of Kitty and Travis --- which blazed across a North and South consumed by war, which smouldered in the ashes of a conquered land --- now reaches its magnificent conclusion in the triumph of true devotion and a love meant to last forever.