She was born to Ham Maxwell's bed wench Ellen, sired by the handsome mustee Brass Door. Through ironic tricks of fate, Scandal became, at 17, the belle of white New Orleans in 1861 and married into its wealthiest family.
Meanwhile the man she loved, son of a white plantation owner, was shackled and sold to die - as a black slave - in the hell of the Delta canefields.
Scandal could not let that be - no matter what the cost...