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The Wilderness Road

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I really enjoyed this story. I fell in love with Rip and Katherine. This was a well researched and well written story. Vivid details from the Civil war period. The story stayed with me long after I finished. Look forward to more stories from L. G. Vernon.

It's 1864 and the Civil War is still going on. Major Rip McKenna, an officer of the Union Army of the Potomac is badly wounded during the infamous Battle of The Wilderness. Rip wonders from his hospital bed, climbs aboard his horse and sets off. Days later a young southern boy finds the delirious Rip lying beside his horse and hurries home to get help. Rip is taken to a plantation where the boy's aunt, Katherine Stuart and her former slaves work hard to nurse Rip back to health.

Katherine is young, single and in charge of the plantation. Problems arise when Katherine's evil brother-in-law returns home to find not only a Yankee being nursed, but one he knows and hates. Katherine sees Rip safely back to the Union lines, but finds herself in danger from her brother-in-law and his plan on taking the plantation for himself.

I enjoyed the history and romance of this story. It's well written and entertaining

Rip McKenna is wounded in the "Battle of The Wilderness. He wonders around the woods and is found by Katherine Stuart. She takes him in and when he can travel he goes north. After he has recuperated he regains his command. When he was given the opportunity he goes by Katherine's to thank her and she is gone. The war took its toll on Rip and when it ended he decided to go to the Dakota Territory, Cheyenne. There he found Katherine in the hands of a man that had stalker her from the east. Rip must return to the Rip of old and stop his drinking to set Katherine free from this man. It is a fast moving read that you will enjoy. By Ruth Thompson author of "The Bluegrass Dream" and Natchez Above the River"