title: The Fiercer Heart: A Novel of Love and Obsession
author:  Micaela Gilchrist 
description: As celebrated military adventurer Philip Kearny says at the beginning of Gilchrist's second novel set in the decades preceding the American Civil War, "It is a fact of natural history that a beautiful woman can destroy a man's life with very little effort." This tale of the real-life marriage of the wealthy Yankee and headstrong Southern belle Diana Bullitt blends narrative, period detail and vivid renderings of the ideological differences that suffused antebellum America. Gilchrist (<i>The Good Journey</i>) had exclusive access to family diaries and letters, and her well-developed characters mix fact and fiction. Diana is a courageous and compassionate Kentucky-born beauty (she shoots a stampeding buffalo one day and rescues an orphaned Pawnee Indian baby the next); Philip is a callous and self-involved soldier who's seen battle from Oregon to North Africa. His impulsive proposal to Diana sets the tone for a rocky marriage; early on the couple is tested by heartache (the death of their infant daughter Susan) and Philip's sexual indiscretions. But when the intrepid soldier loses an arm during combat in Mexico, his emotional instability and continued infidelity spell doom for the union. (Philip and Diana divorced in the late 1850s, a scandalous act in Victorian times). Lively descriptions of the clothes, manners and mindset of the day elevate this dramatic tale of the destructive powers of love. <i>(Oct.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: VOLATILE LOVE
  GILDED SOVEREIGN
  
  DANI RENÉ
  
  CONTENTS
  Acknowledgments
  Foreword
  Playlist
  Prologue
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Chapter 21
  Chapter 22
  Chapter 23
  Chapter 24
  Chapter 25
  Chapter 26
  Chapter 27
  Chapter 28
  Chapter 29
  Chapter 30
  Chapter 31
  Chapter 32
  Chapter 33
  Chapter 34
  Epilogue
  Bonus Scene
  COMING SOON!
  SNEAK PEEK!
  Prologue
  Also by Dani René
  
  Stalk Links
  About the Author
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Dani René
  Published by Dani René
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