Amidst torrid gossip and whispered suspicions, Reid Sayers has returned to his home town in rural Louisiana, to a family blood feud begun a hundred years before..and to his own private war with Camilla Greenley. By day their battle is nothing short of open war, but at night, their love is a passionate combat, a fury of competitive ecstasy. And when murder enters the picture, the fragile trust so tentatively built between them is put to its most daring test.... AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD A MAIN SELECTION OF THE DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB