Opposites: Sally Day Hammond is vivacious, tiny, coddled and Southern; Charles Horne is silent, tall, unbending and Northern. The American Civil War has just ended. And a marriage is to be made between these two? When Charles brings Sally Day back to live with his strict New England family, little wonder that tensions rise to the breaking point. But Sally Day has mettle; in the desperate honesty of this young couple's conflict, both young hearts may yet stretch and truly meld. In a setting of historical depth, skilled novelist Bianca Bradbury brings all the resources of a heartsearching realism to the predicaments of young married love.
"Sally Day's heard from her beau," Gene said, grinning.
Sally Day took a candle and went up to her room to open the precious envelope.
Charles's writing was even and steady...There had been some fighting around Harper's Ferry, he said, but the men were full of hope that the war could not drag on much longer. He didn't say anything personal in the letter; there wasn't a single loving word. He signed himself, "Your friend, Charles Horne."
Disappointment clouded Sally Day's face. Then she thought, maybe he just doesn't know how to write a love letter. Maybe he can't let himself go and say what he wants to. Papa says Yankees are different from southern folks.
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