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The time is the Civil War, and the house is Bel Chance, a great Southern mansion located in West Virginia, not yet a state. The Chance family is divided against itself: one brother is in the Confederate Army and two others take the Union side, although the eldest does not fight. Now their father has died, and, surprisingly, left half his estate to Lucinda, his daughter by a second marriage. But he appointed his eldest son, Jeff, her guardian until she became eighteen or married, and Jeff is determined that his half sister will not inherit...