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Plot Summary of For Love or Honor Bound
"The year is 1864, the high-water mark of the Confederacy. For Love or Honor Bound is a historical romance novel concerning three young lives and how the American Civil War changed them. With exhaustive research and famous personalities throughout, James Tagget has written a story about love, loyalty and how money can change all the rules. Amidst cavalry charges, high-sea chases, spies and intrigue, lives are challenged by the bloodiest conflict in American history. One question remains. Would you hold the same values, under the same conditions? For love or for honor? Which one would you feel bound by?

This Civil War novel follows the lives of Countess Isabelle Sophia Bario, a Brazilian noble-woman recruited by the Confederacy as a spy, Robert George Norton, a Confederate cavalry officer facing Sherman's March to the Sea, and Ian Norton, his estranged brother, who commands the Union blockader, USS Superior. These three lives are interwoven against the backdrop of war, when the tide has swung against the South.

Robert Norton rides with a South Carolina cavalry brigade, on loan to shore up the undermanned forces protecting Georgia. As Sherman begins his bold strike towards Atlanta, Norton saves the Bario family from capture. Thus begins his involvement with Sophia, when they both desperately fall in love. As Norton fights rearguard and delay actions, outnumbered and outgunned, he also tries to protect Sophia. In the middle, of course, is Count Bario, who has killed before to safeguard his valuable wife. Robert can't prevent Sherman's burning of Atlanta, or his infamous march across Georgia to Savannah, but he can help Sophia and her family escape to Galveston, Texas. Yet the adventure doesn't end there!
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Derek Hart, Resident Scholar

"This is a page-turning Civil War romance novel that asks one to choose honor or love, as it affects 3 lives entangled in the bloodiest conflict in American history. Countess Sophia Bario of Brazil is recruited as a Confederate spy, falls in love with Major Robert Norton, a Confederate cavalry officer, while married and pursued for murder."
Ian Treadwell, Resident Scholar




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Plot
Time/era of story - 19th century
Love Triangles/Polygons Yes
What kind: - one women--two brothers
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot: - seduction of someone else's wife
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action: - war bringing lovers together - spies
If one lover chases another... - they alternate

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - infantry soldier
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident - a better lover
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - spy - diplomat
Has unusual powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - clairvoyant
Eccentric/Mental: Yes
How sexual is this person? - somewhat promiscuous
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - confident - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast - Texas - Northeast - Deep South
Water? Yes
Water: - warship
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion - fort/military installation

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths - explicit references to deaths
What % of story is romance related? - 60%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of female anatomy (the big V)
Focus of story - Her
Consequences of sex - pregnancy
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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