Cordelia Owens can weave a hopeful dream around anything and is well used to winning the hearts of everyone in Savannah with her whimsy. Even when she receives word that her sweetheart has been lost during a raid on a Yankee vessel, she clings to hope and comes up with many a romantic tale of his eventual homecoming to reassure his mother and sister.
But Phineas Dunn finds nothing redemptive in the first horrors of war. Struggling for months to make it home alive, he returns to Savannah injured and cynical, and all too sure that he is not the hero Cordelia seems determined to make him. Matters of black and white don't seem so simple anymore to Phin, and despite her best efforts, Delia's smiles can't erase all the complications in his life. And when Fort Pulaski falls and the future wavers, they both must decide where the dreams of a new America will take them, and if they will go together.
I couldn't put this book down. I kept wanting to find out was going to happen next. I don't know whether to call this a romance or mystery novel. Phin gets stranded in Cuba with life threatening injuries. Delia can't believe that Phin is dead. Her dad is trying to push her into an advantageous with a distant cousin who's a scoundrel. This is Phin and Delia's journey to find each other. I highly recommend this book.
I was given this book by Bethany House Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated in any way.
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