Jana Petken
ASIN: B00PE54JFS
Publisher: JCP Publishing
Pages: 329
From the Best Selling and Multi Award Winning author of, The Guardian of Secrets and The Errant Flock, comes the Award Winning, Dark Shadows. "A fast-paced, action-packed historical romance set during the last days of the Old South" Kirkus Review________________________________________________________________When unimaginable calamities strike, Mercy Carver, a poor London woman, wonders what she has done to deserve such immeasurable suffering. It is only when she faces imminent death in the snow and ice-encrusted Virginia wilderness that she finally understands the power of destiny.Mercy is passionate. She loves and hates in equal measure. Can love and hatred give her the strength she needs now to reach a Northern state, and free a runaway slave wanted for murders she committed?America and her people are strangled in an uncompromising political stalemate. Southern states have seceded ...