‘Joelle Daughtry has a key. By day time, the impoverished Southern belle continues to be helping her sisters in their quest to carefully turn the run-down family plantation into a vacation resort hotel following the close from the Civil War. But by evening and under a male pseudonym, she has been penning content for the neighborhood paper to get constructing a school for previous slaves. With the Mississippi arm from the Ku Klux Klan getting power and prestige, Joelle understands she actually is playing a dangerous game. Loyalties change when Schuyler Beaumont, youth enemy and current investor in the Daughtry House renovation, takes over his assassinated father’s candidacy for state office. Joelle discovers that in order to protect her family and her home, she and Schuyler must reserve their longstanding personal discord and create a united public front. The difficulty is, what do you do when animosity turns into respect–and actually love–if you’re currently engaged to another person?’