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Gideon Tugwell's father has died, leaving the thirteen-year-old aspiring writer to run the family farm. Desperate to escape bankruptcy and save his mother from marrying Barley Cobb, Gideon takes a wagonload of wheat to sell in Richmond, the Confederate capital just miles from the battlefields of the Civil War.

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Gideon Tugwell's father has died, leaving the thirteen-year-old aspiring writer to run the family farm. Desperate to escape bankruptcy and save his mother from marrying Barley Cobb, Gideon takes a wagonload of wheat to sell in Richmond, the Confederate capital just miles from the battlefields of the Civil War.

Emily Lodge witnesses the terrible human cost of the War, volunteering in the makeshift hospitals of Richmond. Frustrated at still not having received her pass back to Illinois, she realizes too late that her antislavery views threaten not only her homecoming but her very life!

Nat Travis, a former slave, has gained his liberty in Canada, but he risks it all by returning to the South to rescue his mother and sister, trapped behind Union lines outside Richmond. But on the eve of their departure north, things go terribly wrong. Will Nat have the cunning and courage to survive?