![]() ![]() Transferred to the front lines, he promises he will survive and marry her. While imprisoned, she falls in love with her interrogator, a Union major who helps her escape. Yet as this innocent young woman soon discovers, fate can have a double edge. Although Southerners, the Colleys try to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate their livestock, burn their farm, and arrest their daughter, Adair, on charges of “enemy collaboration”. The Colley family is made of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. “Jiles carries her gifts with deft precision.” ( New York Times Book Review) ![]() As lyrical and poignant as Ahab’s Wife and Cold Mountain, here is a wondrous tale set against the tragedy of the American Civil War. ![]()
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