Set against the history of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation and the initial Fisk School Jubilee Performers ensemble, To Bet Her Heart is a stirring love story about seeking justice and restoring honor at a time in American history when both were tenuous and hard-won.

With fates bound with a shared tragedy, a reformed gambler through the Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society’s anticipations must interact to accomplish their dreams-provided the truth going to Wager Her Heart doesn’t tear them apart first.

Sylas Rutledge, fresh owner of the Northeast Range Railroad, invests everything he has into this fresh venture, partly for the sake of the challenge. But mainly to obvious his father’s name. One man holds the key to Sy’s success-General William Giles Harding of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation. But Harding is normally champagne and thoroughbreds, and Sy Rutledge is normally ale and bullocks.

Sy needs you to definitely help him maneuver through Nashville’s culture, so when he fits Alexandra Jamison, he quickly decides he’s found his teacher. But he shortly discovers that the train incident his father is blamed for leading to is what wiped out Alexandra’s fiancé and shattered her globe.

Spurning an organized marriage by her father, Alexandra instead pursues her passion for teaching at Fisk University, the first freedmen’s university in america. But family-and Nashville society-do not really approve, and she quickly finds herself cast out from both.

Through connections using the Harding family, Alexandra and Sy become unlikely allies. And despite 1st impressions, Alexandra steadily finds herself arriving at respect as well as look after this guy. But how do she, when her heart continues to be spoken for?

Sy is willing to risk everything to win over the girl he loves. What he doesn’t depend on is needing to wager her heart to accomplish it.