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Beneath the burning ground

In the Kansas Territory near the border with Missouri, border skirmishes have been replaced by the opening of hostilities in the War Between the States. Jonathan Ware and his wife are deeply troubled that their sons have enlisted on opposing sides of the conflict. The Wares and other homestead families are subject to raids by renegades from both sides, and when Jonathan Ware and Bishop Jardine are killed, the women are left unprotected. But Christy Ware and her father had once discovered a hidden valley. Is it a possible safe haven?

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 859 pages

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