title: Banners of Desire
author: Hagen, Lorinda
description: BATTLEFIELD OF PASSION
  
  The War Between the States was just beginning, but beautiful Caroline Meredith found her life shaken to its very foundations by private battles more violent and tempestuous than those fought by North and South.
  
  Accused of immoral conduct, abandoned by the man she loved, and rejected by her own family, Caroline ran away at the age of seventeen to begin a new life as an actress with a traveling theatrical troupe.
  
  Unable to conquer her passion for the arrogant Captain Trent Malone, tormented by desire, Caroline learned to use her charms as well as her talent to survive the tide of war that threatened to sweep her and those she loved to the brink of destruction.