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book was available free for my Kindle, I enjoyed it, and found it difficult to put down, The main characters in the book are quite believable at the end of the book I was both frustrated with the main female character, and happy with the way her story ended.
I'm trying to broaden my interest in historical fiction and this book is set in the latter part of the Civil War some of the views of the common people in the part of the North where the story is set weren't familiar to me and I suppose this means I need to learn more about the War as it related to attitudes in border states on the frontier.
I'd definitely read another book by this author, A QuarterFinalist in Amazons Breakthrough Novel award, War Torn is a “solid period drama, . . The political posturing, anguish of war, and fear of being accused of treason are compelling, ” Publishers Weekly, April
No battles of the Civil War waged so bloody, and so personal, than at the tenuous border states.
War Torn is one woman's story of loss, painful secrets, survival, and most of all, finding love again.
Daniella had always lived a quiet life of privilege in Baltimore, but when she is thirty years old, the KansasNebraska Act changes her fate.
Danny and her father soon join thousands of other passionate abolitionists who decide to leave their homes and move out West to be part of a crucial vote that will decide whether Kansas will be a slave territory.
Soon this bold, warmhearted woman marries William Gary, a bright doctor from Independence, and they start a family, but as brutal conflicts carry on at the border, the marriage eventually begins to disintegrate and William begins to stray.
With her town soon emptied of men off to war, including William, and devastated by Williams affair, Danny comes to the aid of a friend from the past, Jack, and his young daughter, whose Arapaho mother has died.
Caught between the old life she desperately wants back, and a chance at something new with Jack, Danny must look deep inside herself to discover who she is and who she wants to be as a wife, mother and woman.
When William finally returns a war hero, he finds a town plagued
by guerrilla violence and civilian attacks.
Danny wants to follow General Ewings orders and move the children to the safety of town, but to her horror William has other plans.
What follows is Danny and Jacks perilous journey to keep the family together as the country collapses around them, a journey that will eventually take them to the doorstep of the most sophisticated network of escape ever organized, the Underground Railroad.
"A historical novel set in Kansas during the Great Succession, balancing historical details with the story of a woman of commitments and values in the face of loss.
History buffs are waiting for this one, " ABNA Expert reviewer, March, .