FRANCO LOCO AND THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS

Born into scandal and raised in the gutters, Franco Lacroix was never meant to be anything more than a discarded orphan. But fate had other plans. With war tearing the world apart and secrets that could topple empires buried in his bloodline, Franco finds himself at the center of a dangerous game-one that stretches from the smoky backrooms of the Confederacy to the blood-soaked battlefields of Missouri and the grand halls of European power. As blockade runners smuggle fortunes and Bushwhackers carve out their own bloody vengeance, Franco will have to decide who he truly is-a man bound by his past or one who will forge his own destiny.