Sovrin's Star: 1 (Mississippi Connection)

At the end of the American Civil War ten-year-old Sovrin is alone and lost in the South. At times he thinks he wouldve been better off if hed died along with his parents in the war. After all who wants a kid with a disability? Tiker is a cockney-accented former bare-knuckle prizefighter from England. An agent provocateur for the Confederacy under the guise of a confidence man he is sent to spy on a Union Army Colonel. When Tiker and Sovrin meet while trying to cross the Tennessee state line Tiker is struck by the boys confidence and gumption. As a way out of being a spy but also out of guilt he takes Sovrin in. Their journey becomes one of redemption when Tiker seizes an opportunity involving a slave-trading general of the Confederate Army. Historical American Civil War Fiction