Beloved Enemy
Al Lacy
What do you do when the love for family comes in conflict your
feelings for a man you love? Such is the dilemma faced by Jenny Jordan. Her
father, maintains his Southern sympathies and agrees to work as a spy for the
south. A member of President Lincoln’s Senate Military Committee, he is part of
the group planning the Northern offensive and defensive. As the north continues
to lose battles, it becomes apparent that there is a spy in their midst. As
this is going on, Jenny has met and fallen in love with a Union office names
Buck. Being discouraged by her father for forming an attachment with Buck,
Jenny can’t help herself and fears what will happen when Buck learns her father
is a spy.
As part of a network of young ladies recruited to carry the
battle information south, the day comes when Jenny is asked to carry her first
message to the Confederate troops. Caught at a Union road block, she is now
under arrest and subject to being put before a firing squad. Buck, as
commanding officer, now seeks to intercede with the president on her behalf. Because
she was instrumental in saving the life of Tad Lincoln, the president commutes
her execution.
A behind the scenes look at the Civil War, I enjoyed this
book and recommend it as a book worth reading. The male Confederate spies were
caught and executed. Because of an aversion
to shooting the female spies, the woman responsible for recruiting the young
girls with information for the Confederates was imprisoned for a while and then
sent back south. She never arrived, having drowned in a boating accident on the
trip.
I received
this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.
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