A Reluctant Belle

Joelle Daughtry has a secret.
By day, the impoverished Southern belle has been helping her sisters in their
quest to turn the run-down family plantation into a resort hotel after the
close of the Civil War. But by night and under a male pseudonym, she has been
penning articles for the local paper in support of constructing a school for
former slaves. With the Mississippi arm of the Ku Klux Klan gaining power and
prestige, Joelle knows she is playing a dangerous game.
Loyalties shift when Schuyler Beaumont, childhood enemy and current investor in
the Daughtry House renovation, takes over his assassinated father's candidacy
for state office. Joelle finds that in order to protect her family and her
home, she and Schuyler will have to put aside their longstanding personal
conflict and develop a united public front. The trouble is, what do you do when
animosity becomes respect--and even love--if you're already engaged to someone
else?
Series: Daughtry House, book two.