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The widow's war / Mary Mackey.
- Title
- The widow's war / Mary Mackey.
- Author
- Mackey, Mary
- Publication
- New York : Berkley Books, ©2009.
- ©2009
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3563.A3165 W53 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 357 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In 1853, Carolyn Vinton is left alone and pregnant in Rio de Janeiro when her fiancé, abolitionist Dr. William Saylor, disappears. Grieving and desperate, Carrie is easy prey for William's stepbrother, Deacon Presgrove, who convinces her that William is dead and offers to take her back to the United States and marry her to give her baby a father. Carrie soon realizes that she has been betrayed at every turn by her new husband. Deacon's father is a proslavery senator, and Deacon plans to use Carrie's inheritance to support the cause. Carrie's love for William, and her powerful abolitionist views, have never died. When she discovers that William is alive and fighting to make the Kansas Territory a free state, she escapes the clutches of her husband to join him ..."--Page 4 of cover.
- Subject
- 1861-1865
- Abolitionists > Fiction
- Women and war > Fiction
- African American soldiers > Fiction
- Abolitionnistes > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Femmes et guerre > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Militaires noirs américains > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Abolitionists
- African American soldiers
- Women and war
- Kansas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction
- Kansas
- Genre/Form
- Romance fiction
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Love stories.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780425227916
- 042522791X
- LCCN
- 2009021032
- OCLC
- 311776261
- SCSB-12453340
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library