mary adams-legge

On the Eve of the Civil War, the Shenandoah Valley will reap a different harvest —of murder.

Unable to enlist due to a childhood injury, medical professor Cornelius Baldwin is called one night to examine a dead body in a livery stable. When a family friend is also attacked, Cornelius is forced to search the past for clues—to find a killer from the Mexican War and to accept his feelings for Hannah Walker, the victim’s best friend.

Recently returned home from the North, Hannah struggles on a turbulent sea of conflicting loyalties — her heart versus duty, her friends versus family, her personal dreams versus expectations. As Hannah and Cornelius race to capture the killer before he strikes again, they must decide what matters to them most before either the killer, or the war, destroys them all.