Last Stop Freedom

Julia Bigsby is a spinster whose clergyman father discourages any possible suitors so she can remain at his beck and call as his personal assistant. Through a fortuitous set of circumstances, she meets Nathaniel Hamilton, a dashing planter from South Carolina. He pursues her and asks for her hand after a brief but intense courtship. She accepts, convinced another opportunity to escape her father's influence will never come along.

She soon comes to regret her decision. Her husband is autocrat...