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While Moxley Westcott flees to Mobile to escape arrest by the Union army his brother Ben, critically wounded and a prisoner, hovers at death's door. Their parents and their sister Annie return to their plantation upriver, unaware that danger lurks very near in the person of the evil Xavier Locke, who plans their demise. For the Jessups, Susan's personal problems continue and Alex finds service aboard a new Confederate cruiser. But soon after it sets sail, its crew suffers a life or death crisis. Meanwhile, Philippe and Annie's former suitor, Randall Bartlett, fight the Yankees farther north. Closer to home, Nancy endures Titus's verbal and physical abuse. If Danny can't find forgiveness in his heart and doesn't survive the war, he'll never discover his true destiny, and Nancy will suffer till her dying day. This second installment of Southern Sons-Dixie Daughters continues the triumphs, conflicts, and tragedies of these four Southern families against the sweeping saga of the Civil War's western naval campaigns. Who will live to see the end of the war? Who will die? Who will choose change rather than a hardened heart?

A sweeping saga of the Civil War's western naval campaigns, Book 1 in the Southern Sons-Dixie Daughters series follows four Southern families living on the Gulf Coast-the Westcotts, the Jessups, the Soileaus, the indomitable and devout slave Danny who escapes bondage and finds service aboard a Union warship and his wife Nancy, cruelly whisked out of his life decades before the war.While the Confederacy struggles to build a navy to defeat the Yankee fleet threatening New Orleans these families suffer their own personal conflicts: secret courtships, emotional turmoil, and banishment. For those in naval service--Danny and Confederate Lieutenant Benjamin Westcott, whose family owns Nancy--vengeance and betrayal approaches as the battle of New Orleans draws near. If the Westcott's butler Titus succeeds in his plan, and Ben's mortal enemy Master Xavier Locke of the USS Madison gains the upper hand, both Danny and Ben will suffer heartache and loss in vastly different ways. Unlike most Civil War novels which focus on armies and land campaigns, this two part series is set against the backdrop of New Orleans, Mobile, and David Glasgow Farragut's naval exploits.