
In the dead of night, a lone Union scout slips silently across a swollen river, his heart pounding as he navigates a treacherous sandbank behind enemy lines. Every rustle of leaves and flash of distant campfires could betray his presence, and the weight of General Sheridan’s expectations presses on him like a gun barrel. As he inches toward a flickering tent and a lone horse, the quiet darkness becomes a battlefield of nerves and resolve.
Beyond the immediate danger, the scout finds himself drawn to an unexpected presence—a woman whose resolve mirrors his own, caught in the same war‑torn landscape. Their brief, tense encounters hint at a fragile connection that could blossom even as bullets fly. Listeners will be swept into a story where courage, duty, and a budding love fight for survival amid the smoke of the Civil War.
Language
en
Duration
~7 hours (444K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Release date
2004-04-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1858–1923
A former soldier and lawyer turned prolific storyteller, he wrote fast-moving historical adventures and frontier romances that helped bring the American West and early Midwest to life for popular readers.
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