"Macaria" is a romance story set in time of the American Civil War. Russell Aubrey had suffered as his father was charged with murder and hanged, something that left his mother quite shaken and ill. The family had to bear the humiliation of their subsequent financial lack. Now years later, Russell tries to befriend the lovely Irene Huntingdon, but her father once spurned by Russell's mother, wants to hear none of it. Instead Huntington wants her to marry her cousin, of whom she has no regard?
