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The widow's war

Mary Mackey

"In 1853, Carolyn Vinton is left alone and pregnant in Rio de Janeiro when her fiancé, abolitionist Dr. William Saylor, disappears. Grieving and desperate, Carrie is easy prey for William's stepbrother, Deacon Presgrove, who convinces her that William is dead and offers to take her back to the United States and marry her to give her baby a father. Carrie soon realizes that she has been betrayed at every turn by her new husband. Deacon's father is a proslavery senator, and Deacon plans to use Carrie's inheritance to support the cause. Carrie's love for William, and her powerful abolitionist views, have never died. When she discovers that William is alive and fighting to make the Kansas Territory a free state, she escapes the clutches of her husband to join him ..."--Page 4 of cover.

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