REDEMPTION FALLS

From the author of international bestseller Star of the Sea comes thistale of hatreds and mercies, of balladry and the blues, war and peace. Itis an epic novel and an unforgettable love story. 1865: The AmericanCivil War is ending. Eliza Duane Mulvey sets out from Lafayette,Louisiana, the town her mother Mary Duane called home. Alone, she walksacross a devastated country in search of a youngster she has not seen infour years. One of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war, hisfate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It's a walk thatwill have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: alove-struck cartographer, a beautiful Latina poetess, rebel guerrillaJohnny Thunders, runaway slave Grace McNeile, the mercurial revolutionaryGiacomo O'Keefe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the UnionArmy and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as itseems.