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A Hope Divided
by Alyssa Cole
Another brilliant work in this author's Civil War series. Marlie, living with her healer mother, Vivienne, is free... but also discovers she's a Lynch, part-white. Vivienne sends her to live at Lynchwood, with Sarah Lynch, who's currently running operations there.
Ewan McCall is a Yankee prisoner in a nearby Carolina prison camp that Sarah and Marlie visit with medical supplies and food. Marlie considers herself a scientist. Ewan, I read as being perhaps on the autism spectrum. He berates himself for not having empathy, not fitting in, in his family home. The two super-intellectuals find themselves bonding, first over books and philosophy, and then... chemistry, and not the kind in books, kicks in.
One of the facets of the Civil War I'd never read about in fiction before, is the number of white Southerners, both wealthy and poor, who did NOT support secession, and did all they could to sabotage the Confederacy and help Yankees, whenever possible. This led to a not insignificant number of Confederate troops subtracted from the front lines to round up deserters, escaped prisoners, and "skulkers," and at least as depicted here, were often among the most vicious and sadistic of men.
Will Ewan and Marlie escape to safety in Tennessee? What will his family think of their pairing, a white man and a mixed race woman?
Although these characters are connected tangentially to the characters in the first in this series, An Extraordinary Union, both novels work as stand-alones. Terrific novel, with some very sexy scenes.
Ewan McCall is a Yankee prisoner in a nearby Carolina prison camp that Sarah and Marlie visit with medical supplies and food. Marlie considers herself a scientist. Ewan, I read as being perhaps on the autism spectrum. He berates himself for not having empathy, not fitting in, in his family home. The two super-intellectuals find themselves bonding, first over books and philosophy, and then... chemistry, and not the kind in books, kicks in.
One of the facets of the Civil War I'd never read about in fiction before, is the number of white Southerners, both wealthy and poor, who did NOT support secession, and did all they could to sabotage the Confederacy and help Yankees, whenever possible. This led to a not insignificant number of Confederate troops subtracted from the front lines to round up deserters, escaped prisoners, and "skulkers," and at least as depicted here, were often among the most vicious and sadistic of men.
Will Ewan and Marlie escape to safety in Tennessee? What will his family think of their pairing, a white man and a mixed race woman?
Although these characters are connected tangentially to the characters in the first in this series, An Extraordinary Union, both novels work as stand-alones. Terrific novel, with some very sexy scenes.