Fire in the Shenandoah

Can love not only begin, but flourish in a land torn by war and destruction? Read Fire in the Shenandoah to find out.


Emma McCommas is the daughter of a successful planter in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Just after the outbreak of the American Civil War, she finds herself widowed upon the death of her young husband, a Confederate Army officer.


But then Captain Ryan Murphy, a charming, devilishly handsome, and grievously wounded Union Army officer enters her life when he is left at her home to be cared for.


Can love overcome the boundaries set by two warring nations in a family torn asunder by the war? Can it overcome anything after the entire Shenandoah Valley is consigned to flames? 


This is an over 23,000 word novella.