The Water Girl: A Civil War Ghost Story

It's November, 1864. Private Jeb Reynolds is done with battlefields and the slaughter of troops all around him. Knowing his best friend and compatriot, Butch Hardee, won’t survive another grueling battle, Jeb, Butch and another private, T-Bone, flee south from the bloody Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. When they are caught up in a skirmish, and Jeb is wounded, they stumble across a massive plantation house in coastal Georgia. Margaret Whittle, her brother, and a few slaves still reside within the crumbling walls of Tidewell, fighting to survive as Yankee marauders steal food and livestock on a regular basis. Margaret takes in these Southern deserters, hiding them, and tending to Jeb’s wounds. Even when the first stirrings of love begin to take hold for Jeb, Margaret knows their existence is held in the grip of something more powerful. The real danger to Jeb, Butch, and T-Bone is not discovery by the scavenging Northern troops as Sherman continues his march, or the fear of execution from the Confederacy if caught, it’s what lies upstairs behind a locked door. Turns out, slavery comes in so many forms. If you love the works of R.L. Stine, Justina Ireland's "Dread Nation" or Paige McKenzie's "The Haunting of Sunshine Girl", you will love this story!