Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Genres: | Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, War Books |
Authors: | Paulette Jiles |
Pages: | 352 pages |
Binding: | Hardcover |
ISBN10: | 0061337633 |
ISBN13: | 9780061337635 |
Tags: | Fiction eBooks, Historical Fiction eBooks, War eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub |
Language: | en |
For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison.
But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.
Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.