The Civil War is over, but Mississippi belle Selah Daughtry finds that former Union officer Levi Riggins has set siege to her rebel heart. Can she trust him to help her protect her home and family in these hard times--or will she lose her pride and self-respect in the process?
Trade paperback. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Selah's Mississippi mansion is riddled with debt and she may have to give up the ancestral home. She takes in a former Union man, posing as a railroad company representative but actually investigating crimes linked to the mansion, with the handsome Yankee helping her to convert the mansion into a hotel. A challenging and complicated romance follows.