Proud Surrender

TURBULENT PASSIONS IN A VANQUISHED LAND – AND A WOMAN'S COURAGE IN LOVE...

It was the Reconstruction Era, when carpetbaggers swept across the South to plunder a defeated people.

But Megan, the lovely Irish orphan who had been forced to live off the charity of relatives, had it all now. For she had married Clay Drummond.

Despite the war's destruction, Clay still had his plantation. More than that he had a driving ambition, a hunger for wealth and power. And the force of his desire was matched by Megan's love, which never wavered. Even during the long separations while he was building his railroad empire, she trusted him.

But secrets in the Drummond past were waiting for Megan. Secrets that threatened the marriage she cherished - and the future of the whole Drummond family...