Description
In 1861 Virginia, a Southern plantation daughter shelters a wounded Union scout as war erupts. Torn between loyalty and forbidden love, they must choose between the sides they were born into and the bond neither expected.
Ashes of the Heart
$4.99
Kathryn Hernandez –
The old Virginia house in this story feels heavy with candle smoke and the damp hush that clings after rain, its hallways holding the weight of every whispered decision. I kept picturing the way lantern light would fall across the worn rugs while those two strangers tried to keep their voices low enough that the night outside wouldn’t hear them. It left me thinking about how a single room, thick with secrecy and the smell of woodsmoke, could decide the direction of an entire life.