Nowhere were the rumblings of the inevitable war felt quite so keenly. It's battle cry would bring together, lovely, liberated Leigh Pennington and Hayes Banister, the dashing Yankee shipbuilder on a secret Union mission...
From the hospital tents at Shiloh and Vicksburg to the elegant salons of the great Mississippi river boats, from the lawless borderlands of Quantrill's raiders to the private bedrooms of stolen passions... their stormy romance swept across an America at war - and blazed with all the fiery conflicts of this turbulent era.
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