Abstract:
Susannah Eddings, the beautiful young protégé of Confederate spy Rose Greenhow, gets compromised by the Union, forcing her to become a double agent. Can she prevent the world’s largest iron steamship, chartered by the Confederates as a Union blockade runner, from delivering a huge cargo of arms to the South, while making her first love and her struggling nation think she is still a loyal Confederate? And how does her lover, Naval Lieutenant John Beauregard, deal with his own evolving ambivalent feelings as a Southerner about slavery, having watched the poor Welsh and Irish conscripted sailors serving against their will on the steamship The Great Eastern?