title: The Ashes and the Roses
author: Brandt, Siara
description: Two years of war have torn the country apart, and there is no end in sight. Both sides hold deeply to opposing convictions. When Ascensia McCay is caught up in a brutal guerilla raid, she finds herself a prisoner of a Rebel spy. The war spares no one, it seems, and she is soon caught up in a world of smuggling and espionage, where greed and corruption have free rein, and where traitors boldly roam both sides. As a web of revenge and treachery closes around her, she will come face to face with new truths that will tear her world apart. Will she surrender not only to an enemy soldier, but to her heart as well? Captain Jesse Lucane, spy for the Confederacy, has found himself with more than he bargained for in the headstrong young Yankee woman suddenly thrust upon him. The same war that has made them enemies has brought them together in a tempestuous clash of wills. But when their paths meet again, they will be caught up in more than one battle of opposing forces. In the end, fate will defy all that threatens to destroy them as they struggle to survive the fury of a consuming war that has swept the land.