In this work of historic fiction,the beautiful Lucy Holcombe Pickens, called the "Queen of the Confederacy," memorialized in print a martyred Freemason who tried to free Cuba; she married the once-wealthy, dispossessed governor of the Confederacy; attracted Czar Alexander II who would be assassinated by those he freed; and was a friend of those who succumbed to the dying embers of the Civil War. She was "Queen of the Lost."