Enemy Women

By Paulette Jiles
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060938093, 321pp.)

Publication Date: February 2003

Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (March 22, 2007), Audio Cassette (February 2003), Large Print (August 2002), Hardcover (February 2002), Hardcover (January 2002)

Categories: Historical - General

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For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee.

The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women's prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.

Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise ... seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.

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