num_pages: 321
description: For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee.The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women's prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise...seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.
language: English
title: Enemy Women
titlecomplete: Enemy Women
characters: Adair Colley
genres: Historical, Adult, American History, Westerns, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, American Civil War, Civil War, Romance
ratings_count: 7492
places: Missouri, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: WILLA Literary Award
category: Historical Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial