Title: Beneath the burning ground
Description: In the Kansas Territory near the border with Missouri, border skirmishes have been replaced by the opening of hostilities in the War Between the States. Jonathan Ware and his wife are deeply troubled that their sons have enlisted on opposing sides of the conflict. The Wares and other homestead families are subject to raids by renegades from both sides, and when Jonathan Ware and Bishop Jardine are killed, the women are left unprotected. But Christy Ware and her father had once discovered a hidden valley. Is it a possible safe haven?
Subjects: War and families, Fiction, Farm life, Rural families, Fugitive slaves, Children of clergy, Antislavery movements, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Domestic fiction, Enslaved persons, fiction, Fiction, christian, historical, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Kansas, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Fiction, family life, general
Places: Kansas, United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865