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As America marches toward the Civil War, Harry Wentworth, gentleman of distinction and journalist of renown, finds his calls for peaceful resolution have fallen on deaf—nay, hostile—ears. As such, he must finally resolve his own moral quandary: comment on the war from his influential—and safe—position in Northern Society, or make a news story and a target of himself South of the Mason-Dixon Line, in a city haunted by a life he has long since left behind? The day-to-day struggle against countervailing forces, his personal and professional tragedies on both sides of the conflict, and the elegant and emotive writings that…

Abbey Kaplan always wanted to be a doctor. Little did she know, her first posting after medical school would be to a Civil War field hospital…working in a medical tent close to combat such that rifle and artillery rounds were always a threat. “In late August of 1862, and despite the Second Battle of Bull Run ending some hours ago, the acrid scent of burned gunpowder still hung in the muggy, hot air. Young Dr. Abbey Kaplan sat on a bench and leaned her exhausted body against a tree. After thirty-six hours of surgery, aching muscles demanded sleep. She knew…

In the spring of 1861, a country once united is fractured by war. Half of America fights for the Confederate cause; the other, for unification. Rebel forces have already seized Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, a new Confederate president has been elected, and the Constitution has been revised. In north Alabama, a farmer and father of three decides to enlist. For Hiram Summers, it is the end of everything he has ever known. After Hiram travels to Virginia with the Fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment, he is quickly thrust into combat. His son, David, who must stay behind, searches for adventure…

"New to that country, caught up in my own survival, I did not understand the scope or nature of the War of the Rebellion, only that it was not ours, my brother's and mine, to fight. I could not have imagined that the war would come to the very shores of Grindstone, with such treachery and brutality that I still wake at night with a pounding heart." Leaving Ireland in the devastating aftermath of the Famine, Anya McGregor finds refuge in an island realm far from the violence of the Civil War, only to discover that she cannot escape its…

At the start of the Civil War, Nathaniel Curry is a fifteen-year-old telegraph operator in Richmond. He travels to Washington to see a balloon demonstration and finds himself, entirely by accident, assisting Thaddeus Lowe in directing artillery fire on a Confederate emplacement – the first use of an aircraft in warfare. A pariah back in Virginia, Nathaniel joins the nascent Union Balloon Corps, the world's first air force. The Corps, a motley collection of adventurers, science enthusiasts and misfits, struggles to find its place within the Union Army. The aeronauts prove valuable, providing information on enemy positions and movements, but…

1867 . . . Southerner, Reed Jackson, returns to his family's plantation after the Civil War in a wheelchair. Schooled as a lawyer, he moves west to start again after his father deeds the Jackson holdings to a younger brother. Circumstances bring Reed and Belle Richards together, a dirt poor farm girl aching to learn how to read. Bleak times will challenge Reed and Belle's courage and dreams as they forge a new beginning from the ashes of war and ignorance.

History Gone Awry Mark Aaron quest to protect history continues as he faces his most dangerous adversary yet, Three, a fellow android from the future, whose goal is to apply 21st century tactics to change the outcome of the American civil war and bring a speedy victory for the Confederacy. Mark, and his companion Jane, must utilize all of their resources, form an alliance with an uncanny being, and become what they abhor in order to preserve history, preserve the union, and save humanity from ultimate destruction.