She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthyJewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent NewOrleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm ofthe Civil War. Forced to choose between her dutiesas a Southern wife and mother and her love for aforbidden man, a forbidden cause, Miriam Raphael isat the center of the whirlwind in a spellbindingnovel of divided loyalties and divided hearts.From the Paperback edition.