Seraphine Passibone is a beautiful young woman, the child of a quadroon mother and wealthy French father in New Orleans placage society. For two decades she has been haunted by Francois Devol's unspeakable evil which ripped her family apart when she was just an infant. Quickly smuggled away to France

Civil War Era Society Ladies ARDENT DONEGAN Ardent is Cage Carew's fiancee. She comes from an affluent family, but once the Civil War starts, she spends the majority of her time volunteering with the U. S. Sanitary Commission hospital for wounded soldiers. When she is not working for

6th U.S. Colored Artillery Regiment Pete Caballo is a Black Seminole growing up in the Florida swamps, the son of a slave woman and her Spanish master, Charley Cavallo. Black Seminoles, also called Seminole Maroons or Seminole Freedmen, were a group of free blacks and runaway slaves who escape to

A British East India Company Army Officer In 1837, Lyman Dunnock, an orphaned street tough raised in the hellish rookeries of the Victorian London Slums, plans his escape from the cruelty and molestations of lecherous apprentice-master. However, when Lyman tries to leave, the master corners him and Lyman accidentally kills

A Union Soldier When his story begins, in the summer of 1862, Micajah "Cage" Carew is a professor of literature at Ohio University, in Athens, living just a few miles north of the Ohio River. The Civil War is one year old, and the river is the boundary