Living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, a young Confederate girl faces a dilemma when a Union soldier is injured at her doorstep.
Fourteen-year-old Emma lived a life of privilage on a Virginia plantation, until the Civil War tore her life apart. Her father and the young man she loved both went off to the war, and now she feels all alone, left to care for her dying mother amidst the horrors of the Northern occupation of her home.—Rebecca <[email protected]>