From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World Good Morning America Book Club Pick For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family\'s avowed neutrality. seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.. . .
Now an escaped Enemy woman, Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise .
Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.
Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over.
But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair.
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.
For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee.
From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World Good Morning America Book Club Pick For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family\'s avowed neutrality
