Civil War

The Flynn brothers have inherited more than a New Orleans plantation. They've inherited a ghostly presence… and a long-kept secret.

Katherine is still recuperating from the vandalism of her house, dealing with decorating while her husband, Tom, is away with his boss on business, when a friend she knows slightly, Dr. Florence "Flo" Gadney comes to her with a geneaological mystery.  What starts as an innocent trip to the Georgia coast becomes a costly and dangerous journey into the past, searching for Dr. Flo's ancestors and running into some serious racism along the way.  Everyone tells them that there were no pirates in the Civil War, but then who is the pirate Mallery buried just outside the family graveyard on Bayard Island, and why are the Bayards so determined not to be related to Dr. Flo? 

Kit Weston originally travels to New York to kill one Baron Cain, who stands between her and her home, Risen Glory.  But Kit's not yet realized that killing a man is harder than it seems, no matter how much hatred is in your heart.

Meantime, Baron Cain catches her trying to kill him and sends her off to finishing school to acquire some manners.

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At the end of the Civil War, Nurse Laurel decides to take the last words uttered by the soldiers that died in her care to their kin. When accosted by bandits, a man named Creede saves her. Creede has been looking for his son. He decides to travel with her and slowly they both help each other through their grief and fall in love.