02024cam a2200313 i 4500 381677549 TxAuBib 20190430120000.0 190425s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019006058 9780778316411 hardcover 0778316416 hardcover (OCoLC)1099179745 TxAuBib rda Miller, Linda Lael. The Yankee widow / Linda Lael Miller. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, 2019. 422 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A richly layered, emotional novel about one woman's courage and the choices she must make in the face of a dangerous war. Caroline is the young wife of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army, no one anticipates he will not return. Then Caroline gets word that her husband is wounded, and she must find her way alone to Washington City and search among the thousands of casualties to find him. When Jacob succumbs to his injuries, she brings his body home on the eve of the deadliest battle of the war. With troops and looters roaming the countryside, it is impossible to know who is friend and who is foe. Caroline fights to protect those she holds most dear while remaining compassionate to the neediest around her, including two strangers from opposite sides of the fight. Each is wounded... Each is drawn to her beauty, her kindness. Both offer comfort, but only one secretly captures her heart. Still, she must resist exposing her vulnerability in these uncertain times when so much is at risk. 20190430. 1861-1865. Widows Fiction. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Gettysburg (Pa.) Fiction. Historical fiction.