Not finding the safe haven she expects, Olivia is caught off guard by her feelings for Ridley Adam Cooper, a man who seems anything but a Southern gentleman.īranded a traitor by some, Ridley Cooper, a Southern son who chose to fight for the Union, is a man desperate to end the war still raging inside him. Expecting to be the Hardings' head housekeeper, Olivia is disillusioned when she learns the real reason Elizabeth's husband, Confederate General William Giles Harding, agreed to her coming. Olivia Aberdeen, destitute widow of a man shot as a traitor to the South, is shunned by proper society and gratefully accepts an invitation from Elizabeth Harding, mistress of Belle Meade Plantation. Soon the object of Wade's affection is also the suspect in a major crime-one he's expected to prosecute.From bestselling author Tamera Alexander comes an exquisite historical novel set against the real history of Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville, Tennessee, that explores the struggles of real people of the post-war South and the journeys of a man and a woman scarred by betrayal.
When Wade meets Catriona, he is immediately intrigued by her and the little redheaded scamp in her care-but what he doesn't anticipate is that the cash in Catriona's possession is some of the most convincing counterfeit money he's ever seen. In order to infiltrate their sophisticated enterprise, he must pose as a former Confederate in Franklin-a town where counterfeit greenbacks run rampant. Wade Cunningham is a former Federal soldier who now works for the newly formed United States Secret Service and is trying to uncover counterfeiting rings in the postwar South. Now the sole provider for her seven-year-old spitfire sister, Nora, Catriona hopes to reunite the siblings-the only surviving members of their devastated family.
According to the last letter Irish immigrant Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee, where-as a conscripted Confederate soldier-he likely endured the bloody Battle of Franklin that claimed the lives of thousands.Ĭatriona leaves behind the lush green of their Irish homeland in search of him, with nothing to her name except the sum of cash Ryan sent to their family.
In a town battered and bruised by war, one woman embarks upon an impossible search-and one man must face the past in the very place that almost destroyed him.
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