White Doves at Morning 
Subtitle: A Novel of the American Civil War
Publisher: Orion (Orion Publishing Group, Limited)
Published: 2003
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780752856513
First sentence: THE black woman's name was Sarie, and when she crashed out the door of the cabin at the end of the slave quarters into the fading winter light, her lower belly bursting with the child that had already broken her water, the aftermath of the ice storm and the sheer desolate sweep of leaf-bare timber and frozen cotton acreage and frost-limned cane stalks seemed to combine and strike her face like a braided whip.