Her Southern mother's allegiance is divided, her father feels the North is right. Her dear friends Douglas and Stuart McIntyre, returned from the South, have no wish to fight their southern friends. Into this confusion comes her cousin, Lorena; pretty and Southern.Grand Mistress Phyllis A. Whitney dedicates this historic work of youth fiction to her daughter, Georgia.

    

    It is history written in the lives of people unconscious of history, the human record of a passionate era. Above all, it is the unforgettable story of a love that grew between one of the conquerors and one of the unconquered.