The tension in his novel arises when the widow of a Union soldier is met at her door in the Shenandoah Valley by her late husband’s best friend, now an officer in the Confederate Army, who vows to protect her. Her impulse is to use this opportunity to spy for the Union, but she knows that could end her protector’s pledge. The author, Andrea Boeshaar, is a co-founder of American Christian Fiction Writers and runs a coaching service for writers called The Writers ER. She is from Wisconsin.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 2017. 299 pages. Trade paperback