![]() ![]() ![]() Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and she finds herself returning her feelings despite herself. ![]() Louis.īut young Adair is sustained by a strong heart, and love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Torn from her terrified sisters, the girl suddenly finds herself consigned to a living hell, caged with the criminal and the deranged in a filthy women’s prison in St. Left to care for two young sisters, Adair sees no road but the one that leads away, as they start out on foot into the winter mountains in search of a safe haven.Įven the least of hopes is doomed, however, in a world forever changed, as the treachery of a fellow traveler brings about Adair’s arrest on charges of enemy collaboration. For eighteen year old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare seen at its most terrible on the day the Union Militia arrives to set her house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and dragging her widowed father away, beaten and bloodied. From critically acclaimed, award winning poet and memoirist Paulette Jiles comes a debut novel of startling power and savage beauty an extraordinary story of survival and love in the midst of a torn nation’s bitter agony.įor the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War Between the States is a plague that threatens devastation despite the family’s avowed neutrality. ![]()
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