For Love and Honor — Madeleine Garnett

When the Civil War breaks out, Yankee beauty Loretta takes her infant son and flees her brutal husband, a Southern plantation owner, who hides his cruelties under brave acts, which include saving the life of the man Loretta loves.

A time of Civil War and forbidden desire.

Loretta, -- a Yankee beauty trapped in the South when the first guns of war sounded, she'd taken her infant son in a desperate attempt to escape the brutal plantation owner who was her husband.

Stowe, -- the rugged Virginian who couldn't stop himself from loving the wife of the very man who'd saved his life in battle.

Nate, -- the proud Confederate who concealed a secret cruelty behind his legendary courage, and who schemed to hold onto his woman by threatening to take away the one thing she cherished most.