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"Hope and Love"
Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted December 15, 2003

Her father is dead, the country is ready to go to war and she is losing her home. Annabelle owes more money than she can pay to Peyton Kincaid and knows that her father had made a deal with him so that she is forced to marry his Read more...

"Solid American Civil War romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 25, 2003

In 1861 Virginia, Annabelle Hallston is unhappy that even in death her father has sold her out to pay his debts and those incurred by her two brothers. She accepts the deal between Peyton Kincaid and her deceased father only because she is worried about her younger sibling Bo. Read more...

"A bittersweet, romantic journey through the Civil War era."
Reviewed by Suan Wilson
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted December 26, 2003

Raised by an absented-minded father, Southern belle Annabelle Hallston has spent her childhood running wild and free. As her father's health deteriorates, he tries to protect her future when he sees the inevitable war brewing on the horizon. He blackmails Annabelle into a marriage-of-convenience with bad boy, Royce Kincaid. A Read more...

Summary

Orphaned and penniless as war clouds threaten the land, Annabelle Hallston has vowed to do anything to keep her younger brother safe -- which brings her to Royce Kincaid, the notorious black sheep scion of an aristocratic family. Arrogant, dissolute, and handsome as the Devil, Royce is the sort of rogue Annabelle would never have associated with -- let alone have agreed to marry! -- had her situation been less desperate. But while he is no gentleman, an honorable heart beats beneath his cool exterior. Royce Kincaid cannot -- will not -- believe in love. But a marriage would provide this proud, independent lady with a home, even as their world crumbles around them. Annabelle can see the fine, tormented man behind the scoundrel's mask, but how can she give her heart to one who will only break it? Yet, perhaps, in this time of great turmoil, her love will be the key that unlocks his true passion and frees his wounded soul.