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Felicity Morgan finds herself in a major predicament. The daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner, her mother arranged her marriage while she was just a toddler to Harlan Hamblin, the son of her best friend. Prior to her wedding she has fallen madly in love with a man who has stolen her heart, and her virginity, but she finds out later he has stolen much more from many other young, starry-eyed women, and the Pinkerton Detective Agency is hot on his trail. She is miserable in her marriage to a New Orleans lawyer, and besotted with the rogue, gambler, womanizer whose child she carries inside of her. Trying to locate the love of her life, she goes to Charleston, where he told her his family lived, only to find no such person, or family by that name living there. Shocked, saddened, angry, and confused, she treks back home to New Orleans, deciding she will just have to pretend the child is her husband's and keep his identity secret for her and his protection. As the shot was fired over Ft. Sumter, ushering in the war, her husband and his mistress were ushering their love-child into the world. Duty calls and Mr. Hamblin joins the Confederacy. Unfortunately, he falls at Antietam, Maryland, leaving two women, one who loves him, one who does not, and two children, one his flesh and blood, the other in name only. Felicity goes to her dead husband's law office, for the first time, looking for his will, and finds a Creole woman crying her eyes out. The woman accosts her with accusations of what a horrible wife she had been to the wonderful man that has been her lover for the past year. Felicity notices a man in black who watches her so closely she quickly becomes uncomfortable. He approaches her with a story about having met at a cotillion while she was at finishing school. Once introduced, she begins seeing this strange man at various places and times throughout the course of her daily routine. At last, he confesses his true identiy as a Pinkerton detective, and what he
