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From bestselling author Stephanie Grace Whitson comes the story of two women-Missouri neighbors drawn into the heart of the Civil War from opposite sides. As the mistress of her brother's Missouri plantation, Miss Elizabeth Blair has learned to play her part as the perfect hostess-and to not ask questions about her brother Walker's business affairs. When Walker's political aspirations lead him to organize the Wildwood Guard in support of the Confederacy-and to offer his plantation as the center of operations-Libbie must gracefully manage a house with officers in residence and soldiers camped on the lawn. But she is truly put to the test as the war draws ever closer to her doorstep, and she must find a way to protect the people who depend on her. Libbie's closest neighbor, Irish immigrant Maggie Malone, wants no part of the war either. She's content to let "the Americans" settle their differences-until her brothers join Missouri's Irish Brigade, and one of their...