Hung Be the Heavens with Scarlet

When the body of fourteen-year-old Tess Fowler is found in the Erie Canal, two outcasts fleeing their checkered pasts team up to solve her murder while navigating the contentious political and racial climate that has torn the nation apart.

It is July 1863, a pivotal time in the Civil War and the experiment in self-governance is in crisis. Jimmy Ryan, a veteran of the Mexican War, a man at war with himself as America is with itself, and Jack Carraway, a likable, naive Scottish immigrant trav...