From Fields of Promise

As the fractured nation struggles to come together after four bitter years of fighting,Mariah and Isaac must find their place in a world which has changed forever.

Belonging neither to the South where its sympathies lay, nor to the North which held it captive, Maryland’s Eastern Shore forges a new path through the havoc left by the Civil War.

Mariah Wright, a Confederate widow, must find a way to keep her husband’s farm from falling into poverty and ruin. Most of the former slaves have headed...