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Now in paperback, the love of a young girl for a heroic outlaw is rendered in this richly textured story of a war-torn community and its forgotten history, steeped in the rich atmosphere of the Civil War South.

In the summer of 1864, sixteen-year-old Rhoda Strong lives in the Lumbee Indian settlement of Robeson County, North Carolina, which has become a pawn in the bloody struggle between the Union and Confederate armies. The community is besieged by the marauding Union Army as well... Read Full Overview

Brought up in a mixed-race community - part Scots part Native American - in the forests of North Carolina in the mid-nineteenth century Rhoda is the first of her family to be able to read and her parents have plans for her. But the coming of the Civil War brings labour conscription... Read Full Overview

Now in paperback, the love of a young girl for a heroic outlaw is rendered in this richly textured story of a war-torn community and its forgotten history, steeped in the rich atmosphere of the Civil War South.