Ravendale

Her father's death was called a heart attack. Katherine Stiles knows better.It's April 1861. Fort Sumter has fallen, and Katherine is escorting her father's black-draped coffin home to Ravendale, the family estate in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She is sure the man behind his death is the most powerful person in her life: her father-in-law, a ruthless New York senator. Proving it may take years she doesn't have.The nation is splitting apart, and so is Katherine's family. Her husband is a Union officer. Her sister Suzanne is married to Andrew, his former West Point roommate and best friend, now an officer in the Army of Northern Virginia. When the war comes to Fredericksburg, it comes straight to Ravendale's door.From the glittering ballrooms of Washington and New York to Libby Prison, Gettysburg, and the burned fields of Virginia, Ravendale follows three families through four years of war and its aftermath. They face loyalty and betrayal, love found and lost, and the long road home for the soldiers and the women who held everything together while they were gone.Built on more than twenty years of research and real historical events, Ravendale is a sweeping Civil War saga about friend against friend, the hearts caught in between, and a secret that won't stay buried.The war will end. The truth is still waiting.