Joined in a romantic love that most people only ever dream about Pat Taylors marriage to Tom Allanson was all she ever wanted. Both came from fine Southern families & both longed to recreate for themselves a plantation where they would raise horses grow roses & move with grace & style in the highest social circles of Atlanta; in short to be the Scarlett OHara & Rhett Butler of their time. But scarcely two months later their perfect world had erupted into family hatreds terror bloodshed & murder The beautiful estate was mysteriously burned to the ground & Tom Allanson stood accused of the brutal slaying of his own mother & father. Before the terrifying truth about the perpetrator was revealed other innocent victims were to suffer attempts on their lives as intricate family loyalties & cruel obsessive jealousies were played out.