num_pages: 280
description: Southern bride Catherine Kelly's husband is finally returning home after being critically wounded on a Civil War battlefield. Having married him on impulse the day before he left for war, she realizes she barely knows him. When Andrew descends from the train at the Richmond depot completely enshrouded in black-including a dark hood that covers his entire face and head-Catherine feels more estranged from him than ever. A mysterious woman claiming to be his nurse reveals that Catherine's strong, tawny-haired husband has been blinded and disfigured by a bursting cannon shell.As Catherine struggles with her feelings, she finds herself gradually drawn to a dark-haired stranger, a dashing newspaper correspondent who makes no secret of his interest in her. But there's another man with his own sinister designs on the auburn-haired beauty who draws Catherine into a hazardous espionage mission. When the mission goes awry, Catherine finds herself on horseback, fleeing for her life, her fate now in the hands of the handsome stranger who has fought off her attackers. But whom can she truly trust? Guilt, suspicion, and the discovery of a double treachery embroil Catherine in a situation that ultimately leads to murder, and causes her to fear for her life-and her very soul.
language: English
title: Shadow of Dawn
titlecomplete: Shadow of Dawn
ratings_count: 61
publisher: Amer Book Pub