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. 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.