<p>Historical Fiction readers will enjoy learning about Lydia Aber who in 1861 disguises herself as a boy to save her reckless younger brother from joining the Confederate army. Her quest for family becomes a crucible of survival forcing her to navigate bloody battlefields forbidden love with a doomed soldier and the grim reality of a Union prison camp forging a woman of unbreakable will from the ashes of a nation at war. Her dedication to preserving the memory of the soldiers who died gives her a haunting presence.&nbsp;</p>