Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2015 and awarded a Blue Star 'Shades of Charles Dickens' work ... this offbeat, refreshingly absorbing Civil War novel features impeccable research... Along with the two well-drawn narrators, the novel boasts several wonderful secondary characters." - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Liverpool, 1863: Newly arrived in England, wealthy liberals enlist Trinity, an escaped slave girl, in their campaign to abolish slavery and support Abraham Lincoln's Union. Jubal, a high-ranking Confederate officer, has arrived to find supporters and raise funds for the opposing side. When Trinity discovers a high-stakes conspiracy to win the war for the South, she must risk everything to stop it - including her new-found freedom. But who will believe a runaway slave? And who can she really trust?