From the award-winning author of the instant New York Times and USA
Today bestseller When No One Is Watching, love war, and racial
justice collide in Alyssa Cole's third buzzworthy, sensual, and
revelatory Civil War novel.
The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor--but for the Cuban
American daughter of an enslaved woman and a man ravaged by the horrors
of slavery, an assassination plot could end the battle...
When the Union Army occupies the Florida home of Cuban Janeta Sanchez,
daughter of an enslaved woman and the plantation owner who married her,
her family's wealth does not protect her father from being imprisoned.
Under duress and blaming herself for the arrest, Janeta agrees to
infiltrate a group called the Loyal League as a double agent--and
unexpectedly finds a cause truly worth the sacrifice.
Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams
of helping his people--dreams that died the night he was kidnapped and
sold into slavery. Daniel is rescued, but he's a changed man. When he's
offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert organization of Black
spies who helped free him, he seizes the opportunity for vengeance
against the Confederacy and those who support it.
Daniel is aggravated by the headstrong and much too observant new
detective he's paired with, while Janeta is intrigued by the broken but
honorable man she is tasked with betraying. As they embark on a mission
to intercept Jefferson Davis and thwart European meddling, their dual
hidden agendas are threatened by the ghosts of their pasts and a growing
affection that could strengthen both the Union and their souls--or lead
to their downfall.
