ONCE IN WARTIME

A Novel

By Henry LeBas

Once in Wartime is set in 1863 New Orleans at the height of the Civil War.

True to history, based on fact, the novel tells the little-known story of the fight for freedom and equal rights in the first major Southern city captured by Union forces.

Angelle Bordeaux is a young woman held as a slave by a French Catholic nun and freed by a contested will.

Andre LaSalle is the judge who hears her case and finds himself drawn to her in more ways than one.

Andrew Jackson Grayson is a local patrician and an esteemed attorney who favors the old order, an opponent to Angelle and a rival to Judge LaSalle.

The fates of these characters are intertwined in a Shakespearean tale of love and war and the tragic arc of history.