This book is a wonderful historical novel that will make you laugh out loud and break your heart . . . sometimes all on the same page. Beginning with a shotgun wedding in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War, the story traces the destinies of two prominent families—the Custises and the Lattimers. Strong men and independent women, they are some of the most colorful and fascinating characters you'd ever want to meet.
A historical romance about the way America was and the way, emphatically for Marten, love ought to be: 50/50. And conjugal. Civil War spy Susannah Trail of Moonshine is typically savvy and, at fade out, typically betrothed, to Union Army medic Evan Holloway.