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Brought up amid the luxury of plantation life, Marianne Johnston never questions her sheltered life until, driven by her conscience, she joins the Underground Railroad. Soon Marianne is living a dangerous double life, helping slaves flee by night and acting the belle by day. And nothing is riskier than her attraction to wild, heartless young Southerner Yves Chamard – while being courted by his noble older brother. Now Marianne is desperately trying to resist Yves’s seduction, knowing that her surrender to his touch may cost her everything. Gretchen Craig returns with another sweeping story that brings the Old South to life in all its glory – and a passionate heroine compelled to follow her heart. On the eve of the Civil War, the daughter of Southern planters finds her loyalties tested in a magnificent saga of family pride and forbidden love. Chapter 1 Scared he’d lose sight of his brother in the night, Peter followed close on John Man’s heels. They were in new territory now, miles beyond the boundaries of the Johnston plantation. John Man reached a hand behind him and Peter stopped. "You hear that?” John Man whispered. Hounds. Peter grabbed his brother’s arm. "John, what we gone do?" "Likely they’s two, three mile away yet. Keep you head." They ran, the dark pressing in on them. Then the fear pushed them faster and they thrashed through the brush, heedless of the noise they made -- the hounds followed their scent, not their clamor. |
