A well-researched novel with considerable detail of the
various battles around Virginia, this is a romance for those who like to savor
the details and want to dive deeply into the Civil War.
Set from 1862 to 1865, it tells the story of Emaline McDaniels, a widow trying to hold onto her Virginia
plantation, Shapinsay. Then Colonel Reece Cutteridge, a Union officer, shows up
to requisition her home and her livestock to winter and feed his troops.
Despite her disdain for the Union, Emaline finds herself assisting the Union
doctor and nursing the colonel’s men, all the while fighting an attraction to
their commander.
Reece
has lost his wife and child and resists Emaline, but quickly finds himself
falling in love with her. Separated by war, they will find themselves brought
together by fate.
Nord describes
what it was like to hold a plantation on the edge of war with intruding
soldiers, deserters and miscreants all trying to steal what is not theirs. And
in the midst of all that, love blossoms between two people on opposite sides.
Some parts of the book will seem more like historical
fiction than romance, the love story taking a back seat to the war, but romance
readers who like real history
dished up with the love story will love it!
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