Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War.
Dodging Confederate and Union troops, they ride at night and hide during the day. Finally, after encountering hunger, sickness, and the devastation of war, they arrive in Missouri only to discover the situation there puts them in even greater danger.
But Jesselynn will stop at nothing to save her family, the horses, and whatever remains of Twin Oaks.
- ISBN10 0786236841
- ISBN13 9780786236848
- Publish Date 2 November 2001 (first published 1 March 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 August 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Five Star (ME)
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 350
- Language English