Jiles Paulette - Enemy Women A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World Good Morning America Book Club Pick For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen - year - old Adair Colley it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler however brings about her arrest and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women's prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator a Union major falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom. Now an escaped "enemy woman " Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.
Title: Enemy Women A Novel
Author(s): Jiles Paulette
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061337635
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/10/2007