Rosabelle Wilson is a solid middle class sheltered white girl, but her life is changed forever when she begins a relationship with Esau Ravenell, a young African-American man with good looks, talent, and charisma. However, Esau is troubled by demons that Rosabelle cannot even begin to fathom, and when he begins his downward spiral, Rosabelle is sucked into the vortex. Add to the equation Rosabelle's insecure and damaged best friend Chelle Rogers, Esau's sworn enemy as the result of a blood feud, Sam Greene, a femme fatale named Rae Gaillaird, and Esau's younger cousin, a killer named Jerome, and the sum is a disastrous chain of events that will alter Rosabelle forever. "More Greatly They Dared" is a Southern epic tragedy filled with characters who dare to break the rules, to rebel against social norms, and who inevitably pay the ultimate price for their sins. Set in rural Berkeley County in an environment that is hardly pastoral, "More Greatly They Dared" examines not only the culture of its residents, but also the nature of human beings in general.