River of Peril

By Sandra Merville Hart

Description:

Amnesia stole his memory, and now he’s fighting for the wrong side.
Orphaned and alone at sixteen, Felicity has found solace in serving others as a volunteer nurse. When she discovers her Confederate soldier beau, Luke Shea, among the wounded in her ward, her worst nightmares come true. Luke's shrapnel wound has stolen his memory, leaving him with no recollection of their love or his past. As Felicity struggles with the loss of the man she once knew, she turns her attention to the service of her broken country. But the more she learns about the brutal war, the more she realizes she can no longer stay silent. She becomes a Union spy, plunging herself into danger.
When Luke Shea awakes in a hospital with no memory of the last five years, he’s shocked to learn he's been fighting against the Union he once so strongly supported. And when he learns of his past courtship with his nurse, Felicity, he struggles to understand the man he was and what happened in those missing years. Determined to atone for his Confederate past, Luke also joins the Union cause as a spy.
As danger lurks at every turn, only a Divine hand can not only protect their lives, but give them a second chance for love and the future they both crave.

Book Takeaway:

Readers will find unexpected heroes struggling through difficult times and that will bring them hope.

Why the author wrote this book:

When I learned that a terrible Civil War battle and siege in Vicksburg, Mississippi, caused its citizens to cease celebrations of our country's Independence Day for about a century, it made me want to dig deeper into the history. What I learned about their suffering sparked the ideas for Books 4 - 6 in my Spies of the Civil War Series.