Enemy Women

<p><strong>From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist <em>News of the World</em></strong> </p><p><strong>Good Morning America Book Club Pick</strong> </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>