title: The Belle of Cypress Creek
author: Nemechek, Shannon
description: Brigid O’Neill wanted to fall in love. To be whisked away by her knight in shining armor as he comes to rescue her, but instead, she’s stuck. Stuck in an arrangement her father had made with The MacDougal when she was just a child. ﻿
  Col. Brian MacDougal wanted to marry for love and he had met the love of his life some time ago. Izzy was everything he had ever hoped for but it was not to be. His father had promised him to another when he was a boy. ﻿﻿
  ﻿Now the time had come for the pair to announce their engagement at the annual O’Neill Ball but Col. Brian MacDougal, a confederate officer had to get there first and with Union troops camped at the O’Neill plantation and the union commander attending the ball things become more complicated and have threatened to end the evening before it’s started. ﻿
  But when Col. Brian MacDougal arrives with his adjutant Major Ian Butler dressed in rags no one is more surprised than Brigid especially when she meets Major Ian Butler. Brigid is now torn between obligation and infatuation.﻿
  In the midst of the war, can they follow their hearts, or will obligation tear them from the ones they truly love?