A Breath and a Delusion: A Novel of the War Between the States

by Betty Barrett

What if you were a nineteen-year-old girl living with antislavery parents in a quiet hamlet in Mississippi in 1860 when war broke out between the North and the South? What if you felt duty-bound to marry a gentle Southern widower who was leaving to join Jeff Davis's staff and was trying to insure that his seven-year-old daughter, loved by you, would have a young legal guardian if he did not survive the war? What if your husband was then sent unexpectedly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615856756
• ISBN13: 9780615856759
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Heimat Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"