Run Cissy run

"Graham LaRoque has both the skill and foresight to build a shipping empire, but success in his personal life is more elusive. Frustrated by a lustful but contemptuous relationship with his wife Monique, his vivacious daughter is his greatest blessing. Born to privilege in a loveless home, Cissy LaRoque struggles with the pain of her mother's rejection ... When Monique abandons her husband and child to return to her dissolute Parisian lover, Graham and Cissy forge a new life without her carping presence. Following the outbreak of war in 1861, Cissy is thrust into a world where balls and frivolity are replaced by the perils of enemy occupation. Longing for a chance to find purpose for her life, the outbreak of war provides Cissy the opportunity to venture beyond the strictures that bind women to hearth and home if she but dares to grasp it"--Page 4 of cover.