As she enters the Commencement Ball at West Point on a spring evening in 1837, Cecelia Stovall looks and feels like the perfect, innocent Southern belle. Little does she know that at that dance she will meet the man who will change her life - and the lives of her fellow Southerners - forever. Cecelia falls instantly in love with the dashing young Northern cadet William Sherman, and they embark on a fiery, secret rendezvous despite their broad cultural differences. Legend has it that Sherman's love for Cecelia was the reason he spared her hometown Augusta during his infamous march to the sea, when he burned Atlanta to the ground. Diane Haeger created this lost romance in a sweeping and lyrical novel that will be treasured equally by the history enthusiast and the incurable romantic.
- ISBN10 0312325940
- ISBN13 9780312325947
- Publish Date 24 April 2004 (first published 27 March 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 305
- Language English