Impoverished Southern belle Joelle Daughtry has a secret. By day she has been helping her sisters in their quest to turn the run-down family plantation into a resort hotel after the close of the Civil War. But by night and under a male pseudonym, she has been penning articles for the local paper in support of the construction of a Negro school. With the Mississippi arm of the Ku Klux Klan gaining power and prestige, Joelle knows she is playing a dangerous game.
When childhood enemy and current investor in the Daughtry house renovation Schuyler Beaumont takes over his assassinated father's candidacy for state office, Joelle finds that in order to protect her family and her home, she and Schuyler will have to put aside their longstanding personal conflict and develop a united public front. The trouble is, what do you do when animosity becomes respect – and even love – if you're already engaged to someone else?
- ISBN13 9781432867485
- Publish Date 11 September 2019 (first published 4 June 2019)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 February 2022
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Cengage Gale
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
- Pages 490
- Language English