Suddenly transported to the Old South, twentieth century beauty Randi Galloway found herself employed as governess to widower Jackson Durants only child, Rose. Randi had never met anyone who stirred her soul like the darkly handsome plantation owner with a determined spirit and a mysterious past. As she struggled with the enormous skirts and absurdly strict mores of antebellum Tennessee, she longed to run her fingers through Jackson's thick, dark hair and taste forever in his kiss. But history told Randi that Rose and Jackson would die in the flood of 1849, and her heart refused to allow that to happen to the sweet child and her stubborn father; she would not rest until she found a way to save the little girl she loved and the man she desired. For seeing Jackson and Rose together, Randi knew that she had found the one man with whom she could truly share the soft sweet splendor of the Tennessee nights.