A hope divided
By: Alyssa Cole
Edition: First Kensington trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781496707468
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fiction; Women spies; African American women; History
Description: "The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor--but for one scientist spy and her philosopher soldier, war could bind them together..."--Page 4 of cover.

For all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods; tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners; and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. Then the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie's home for their new base of operations in the guerrilla war against Southern resistors of the Rebel cause.  Escaped prisoner Ewan McCall is sheltering in Marlie's laboratory; he has his own history with the cruel captain of the Home Guard. When Marlie's freedom is endangered,  she and Ewan run for their lives, following the path of the Underground Railroad.
Notes: "A novel of the Civil War"--Cover.

Includes reading group guide.

Includes bibliographical references (page 271).