num_pages: 502
description: In a town battered and bruised by war one woman embarks upon an impossible searchand one man must face the past in the very place that almost destroyed him.Tennessee 1866. According to the last letter Irish immigrant Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother Ryan he was being dispatched to Franklin Tennessee whereas a conscripted Confederate soldierhe likely endured the bloody Battle of Franklin that claimed the lives of thousands. Catriona leaves behind the lush green of their Irish homeland in search of him with nothing to her name except the sum of cash Ryan sent to their family. Now as the sole provider for her seven-year-old spitfire sister Nora Catriona hopes to reunite the siblingsthe only surviving members of their devastated family.Wade Cunningham is a former Federal soldier who now works for the newly formed United States Secret Service and is trying to uncover counterfeiting rings in the postwar South. In order to infiltrate their sophisticated enterprise he must pose as a former Confederate in Franklina town where counterfeit greens run rampant. When Wade meets Catriona he is immediately intrigued by her and the little redheaded scamp in her carebut what he doesn't anticipate is that the cash in Catriona's possession is some of the most convincing counterfeit money he's ever seen. Soon the object of Wade's affection is also the suspect in a major crimeone he's expected to prosecute.
language: English
title: Colors of Truth
publisher: Fountain Creek Press