Two decades before the civil war, an eight-year-old southern heiress longs for the love of the father she has never known--but when they meet at last, nothing is as elsie expects. Can the proud and willful horace dinsmor...Two decades before the civil war, an eight-year-old southern heiress longs for the love of the father she has never known--but when they meet at last, nothing is as elsie expects. Can the proud and willful horace dinsmore learn to love his only child--a little girl whose first allegiance is to god?