A Fall of Kings

He was a rebel among rebels… Judson O’Leary, a gentleman born, was heir to the vast Florida plantation, New Hope, a gracious manor with pillared verandahs that once echoed with laughter and whispered romance, but were now draped with sadness. When the pride of the South was called to battle, Jud became a brilliant young cavalry officer … and an outcast Confederate hero. For though his fearfully outnumbered raiders routed the Federal forces again and again, Jeb Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee all condemned his modern brand of war as unworthy of a gentleman. No one denied his daring. After four years of bloody conflict, from Manassas to Appomattox, his lightning raids won him a hero’s name … but the final battle would be to regain the family plantation, his heritage, his home.