Spy Of Richmond
Jocelyn Green
River North, Mar 1 2015, $14.99
ISBN: 9780802405791
In 1859 near Savannah, her slaveholding daddy
explains to his daughter Sophie Kent that slaves massacred their family in
Virginia and demands a family pledge of loyalty from her, which she reluctantly
gives. He goes off to fight for the
Confederacy. By 1863, he is a POW locked
away in Fort Delaware, Pennsylvania and unbeknownst to him his wife died. Sophia resides in Richmond where, in spite of
her father’s loyalty to the Southern cause, she is under suspicion of Northern
sympathy due to her maternal Pennsylvania roots and her schooling in
Philadelphia.
With her husband incarcerated in Richmond former slave Bella
Jamison arrives in the Confederacy capital.
Meanwhile to her chagrin, Sophia owns Bella’s sister Daphne. Risking their lives, the three females forge
an espionage ring to do what they can to support the North. Reporter Harrison Caldwell supports them from
his position inside the War Department, but soon becomes drafted to defend Richmond.
The Fourth Heroines Behind the Lines Civil War
drama (see Yankee in Atlanta, Wedded to War and Widow of Gettysburg) is a
tremendous historical that focuses on the impact of war on everyone, but
especially the forgotten social class of POWs, slaves and PTSD sufferers. The heroines are fully developed even while
they bravely risk their lives to do what they think is right. Filled with espionage action yet ethical
issues abound throughout; for instance Sophia turns to Scripture for mental
sustenance while wondering if God would accept her logic that a good end
justifies a deceptive mean.
Harriet Klausner
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