The widow's war
By: Mary Mackey.
Edition: Berkley trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780425227916
Subjects: Abolitionists -- Fiction; Women and war -- Fiction; African American soldiers -- Fiction; Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "In 1853, Carolyn Vinton is left alone and pregnant in Rio de Janeiro when her fiancé, abolitionist Dr. William Saylor, disappears. Grieving and desperate, Carrie is easy prey for William's stepbrother, Deacon Presgrove, who convinces her that William is dead and offers to take her back to the United States and marry her to give her baby a father. Carrie soon realizes that she has been betrayed at every turn by her new husband. Deacon's father is a proslavery senator, and Deacon plans to use Carrie's inheritance to support the cause. Carrie's love for William, and her powerful abolitionist views, have never died. When she discovers that William is alive and fighting to make the Kansas Territory a free state, she escapes the clutches of her husband to join him ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.