Cannons and Roses — Rosetta Stowe

A young matriarch, a secret abolitionist, the war's most notorious spy - these are the women of Great Oaks.

Set just before and during the Civil War, CANNONS AND ROSES is a romantic chronicle of three generations of McCoy women, owners of the Louisiana plantation, Great Oaks. Jeanette, young, recently widowed, still with a passion for living, is the matriarch.

Jeanette's daughter Celeste, strong-willed and a maverick, falls in love with a slave, bears him a child and becomes an abolitionist. Philippa, a McCoy granddaughter, a scandalous flirt, becomes the most notorious spy for the Confederacy.

The lives and loves of these three women, irrevocably linked by blood and the stormy Great Oaks heritage, are thrust into the midst of the climactic fury of the War Between the States, from which only one will emerge unscathed.