It is the summer of 1863 and the greatest battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere is in full tilt. Southern Pennsylvania has become one great grinding stone and thousands of men are dead or dying in its wake. The wounded cannot be gathered fast enough. Nobody in this epic tale of human grist will survive unscathed:
Private Ezra Coffin, a severely wounded Union soldier, has never seen his infant son, and perhaps never will...
Major Tom Jersey, a Confederate officer, awakens terribly mangled in the aftermath of combat, his only companions: the wounded enemy, without whom he can't survive, and the ghost of his son—who may be his only means of escape...
Major Solomon Hardy, chief surgeon, who stands at the tables until his health fails—then watches over his own dying son...
Major Josiah Boyd, a gifted surgeon but a flawed man. His time behind the knife may cost him everything—and his patients even more...
Captain Tobias Ellis, his courage under fire makes him a hero, but he may just be the most flawed of all—and the most dangerous...
Liza Coffin, who isn’t eighteen, but already has been a homeless orphan, a mother, and perhaps now a widow too...
Jupiter Jones, showman extraordinaire, itinerant undertaker, and reader of the dead. His healing Oil, acquired from the equatorial coast of West Africa, may be the real thing...
And finally Cuuda Monk, a teenage boy and former slave, alive today only because his father had the courage to bury him when the end came. His visions of the boy with the creel may make him the sanest man in the land—and just may be the means to all their salvation...
It is the summer of 1863 and humanity is under siege. What happens next amid the carnage and human flotsam will be unholy, unnerving, and all but unbearable.
It is the summer of 1863 and everything is about to change.
Everything.
Forever.
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