Winter 1859. On the frozen expanse of Lake Champlain, Isabel "Bel" Lindsey and her cousin Laurence encounter a runaway slave. Their attempt to help him threatens to expose a simmering family secret, and catapults the teenagers far from their comfortable Vermont homeland. Two years later, Laurence is a soldier living through the horror and squalor of war, while Bel has begun a tentative flirtation with her French-Canadian tutor, Louis Pacquette - only to see him enlist for the Union. Laurence and Louis become friends and serve in the same regiment, while Bel stays home and waits for news. But a family tragedy sends Bel to Washington D. C. where she will serve as a nurse and, after the terrible fires of the Battle in the Wilderness, be reunited with the two men who love her.
- ISBN10 0312287577
- ISBN13 9780312287573
- Publish Date 24 September 2002
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 November 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English