24 year old Dominic, The Earl of Vale was like most young men of wealth at that age, arrogant, selfish, and spoiled. His luck at gambling had turned the wrong way and he was running out of funds. Returning home from the gaming room, one...

This setting is Georgia, 1856. Cain and Olivia Breedlove buried their father a couple of weeks earlier. At the reading of the will a stipulation is placed on Olivia. She must marry within six months to a man of upstanding character and financially well off or...