Jeanne Gehret
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Sometimes the past makes true love impossible. But you have to try.
from1863. Daniel Anthony will stop at nothing to prevent slavery from gaining a fo
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othold in the new state of Kansas, but after six years, he's ready to settle down and start a family.
From Martha’s Vineyard, heiress Annie Osborn falls deeper in love with the handsome, heroic Daniel as their letters fly across the continent---but her heart breaks when he fails to explain a chilling episode from his past. She's left battling a Southern sympathizer who witnessed her help an escaped slave. He'll only keep her secret in exchange for sexual favors from herself and her younger sister.
How far must these star-crossed lovers go to protect the innocent?
Against the treacherous realities of the Civil War, Annie and Daniel struggle with their pasts in search of a future together.
Jeanne Gehret’s engrossing novel, based on hundreds of newspaper articles, scrapbooks, and archives, opens the saga of the Kansas branch of the renowned Anthony family reformers. With details to rival Masterpiece Theater, the author fashions the scattered fragments of Annie and Daniel’s legacy into an account that seems larger than life—except that it’s actually true.
Sure to please fans of Stephanie Dray, Marie Benedict, and Glen Craney.
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