title: While the Music Plays
author: Austell, Diane
description: Once Laura Chandler had dazzled all of Washington with her beauty and poise. But the sudden death of her husband, the great senator Robert Chandler, seemed to change her forever, leaving her afraid to care for anyone or anything again. Yet now, in 1861, the streets of Richmond are alive with the rumblings of civil war, and a daring Yankee has sought Laura out. Chase Girard has been charged with the task of persuading the legendary Southern charmer to spy for the Union. But Laura, though deeply drawn to the Union cause, has two brothers in the Confederate Army. How can she betray them -- and everyone she holds dear? And how can she risk a secret alliance with Chase Girard, who has the power to reawaken her most dangerous longings?