Overview

In the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, set in the 1860's, a cedar fence marks the boundary between two families bound by both kinship and circumstance. When Elias Whitmore and Daniel Conroy rebuild that fence together on an April morning, they do not know it will become the measure of all that divides and unites them in the years to come. Martha keeps her home and her heart open to a community that gathers at her table - a space where neighbors, strangers, and those seeking refuge find a kind of grace in ordinary time. But as the nation tears itself apart, the fence between the two properties becomes a line that cannot hold: a line crossed by soldiers in gray, by a man who arrives at midnight seeking shelter, by letters and secrets and the terrible knowledge of war. Four years of conflict will scatter these people across battlefields and into hiding. It will cost them blood, faith, and conviction. And when it finally ends, the way home is longer than any of them can imagine. This is a story about the fences we build and the boundaries we must cross to find what it means to be forgiven, to forgive, and to come home to love.

Full Product Details

9798295843198

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Countries Available