"It's summer of 1862, and the war is going badly for the North. President Abraham Lincoln must take bold action to save the Union and elevate the war effort onto higher ground: a fight to end slavery! But Lincoln's efforts may come too late, as Robert E. Lee's unstoppable Confederate army marches into the North. Evelyn Hanson sets out to steal General Lee's battle plans, but must once again place her vital intel into the untrustworthy hands of Union...

Sarah Gilbert, one of the sharpest, funniest, most original new voices in southern literature, moves beyond the zany worlds of her previous novels Hairdo and Dixie Riggs to venture into a far more dangerous geography: the perfect location for grandiose plots and insidious betrayals, obsessive love and intemperate acts ... the modern American family. Now she explores that most loaded of all relationships, the one between mothers and daughters, and...