First published 1998
A generation has passed since the South claimed victory in the Civil War. Now America faces a second bloody conflict. The United States erupts in fury when the Confederate States annexes Mexican territory. President Lincoln's successors declare total war against their former countrymen. This time the battlefield extends across a brutal frontier where Union blue and Confederate gray clash not only with each other but with Apache warriors, French forces, English troops, and desperate outlaws. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson once again proves his tactical brilliance, outmaneuvering Northern commanders at every turn. The Union army struggles to find a leader capable of matching Jackson's military genius. The stakes have grown higher, the weapons deadlier, and the battle lines stretch across a continent. In this second war between North and South, both sides discover that victory demands a price neither anticipated paying.
Genres: american-civil-war, american-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, action, 19th-century, alternate-history, american-history
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, war
Setting: United States, Confederate States, Mexico
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century
474 pages · Hardcover · Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Content warnings: violence, war