Rebel Pride — Sylvie F. Sommerfield

It had always been understood that Holly Jemmison would marry Graham Forrester, thus uniting their fortunes and merging the lands of Heritage with those of Cross Oaks, the two largest plantations in the area. But when the handsome but disreputable Adam Gilcrest returns. Holly realizes she has always been in love with him--and he loves her. She cannot understand her father's violent opposition to their marriage, even though she knows some dark secret in the past stands between her father and the Gilcrests. Determined to marry Adam any way. Holly leaves home...but then the Civil War breaks out, violently changing all of their lives.