Bella's Point

Isabella Troy Stanley is a divorced, slave freeing pariah surviving in the shattered post Civil War south the only way a fallen debutante knows how. She heads to a Yankee prison and buys herself a husband.

Jack Byron is the former Troy plantation stable boy and object of young Bella€s affection. He rejected her then, and he€s still not sold on the idea of marrying her now. Sure, she€s pretty, but he remembers too well how even a glance in her direction got a man of his standing ridden out of town with a semi-friendly warning. No, Jack€s more sensible now, not to mention he might still be betrothed to another woman.

It€s complicated.

Though to Bella, it€s simple: make Jack love her, marry her, and live happily ever after. The plan seems to work€¦at least until her secret is revealed.