In a nation at war, love draws them together. Secrets threaten to tear them apart.
A spirited Martha’s Vineyard debutante falls for a fiery Kansas abolitionist and must decide whether to believe his tarnished reputation or her own heart. Inspired by true events.
1863: Spirited Annie Osborn longs for a life of purpose beyond the confining shores of Martha’s Vineyard. When a wartime attack on her father’s whaling ship cancels the coming-out she hoped would secure a suitor and an escape, she’s sent to upstate New York. There, she meets an older man whose fierce antislavery convictions fire her soul—but whose frontier life in Kansas has bred rumors that cast shadows on his reputation.
Mayor Daniel Read Anthony of Leavenworth would rather be remembered as a guerrilla abolitionist and Union colonel than for killing a civilian in a street fight—even if it was self-defense. When he meets the keen-witted Annie Osborn, he knows he must tell her the truth if he hopes to court her. But circumstances—and Annie’s suspicious stepmother—interfere at every turn, and he fears he’s lost his chance.
When a Southern sympathizer targets Annie for helping an enslaved man escape and her father uncovers Daniel’s darkest secret, her dreams of a life together in Leavenworth threaten to scatter on the wind. Can Daniel clear his name and outmaneuver Annie’s vengeful accuser, or will one fatal misstep cost him his family’s honor—and the woman he’s come to love?
Secrets to the Wind is the first book in the acclaimed Dauntless series. Inspired by true events from suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s family, it’s perfect for book clubs and readers of 19th-century women’s fiction, Martha’s Vineyard historical fiction, and unforgettable Wild West romance.
Basing her novel on hundreds of newspaper articles, scrapbooks, and archives, the author fashions the fragments of Annie and Daniel's legacy into an account that seems larger than life—except that it's mostly true. Sure to please fans of Stephanie Dray, Marie Benedict, and Glen Craney.
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