Hearts Defiant Author:Cheryl Biggs Lovely Yankee debutante Marci Colderaine had spent most of the war as the belle of Washington society. Only pure chance placed her on the Federal riverboat The Bayou Queen just as it was commandeered by a seductive southern rebel, whose arrogance and daring took her breath away. Blockade runner Traynor Braggette had a desperate plan to sail a Un... more »ion Army boat into besieged Vicksburg to save his captured brother from being hanged. He wasn't going to be stopped by anyone, especially a red-headed beauty who fought him like a wildcat and whose nearness awakened feelings that were pure treason.« less