The Last July

In the autumn of 1863, a pine coffin arrives at the Wilkes mansion in Freeport, Maine. Frank Wilkes has paid a fortune to bring his son home from the war. But when Ellen lifts the lid, she finds a stranger's face wearing her husband's coat and clutching her husband's Bible. Her husband is still out there somewhere. And no one knows who this man is. Rather than send the stranger off to a nameless grave, Ellen refuses. She buries him beneath the Maine pines and tends his grave as if it were A...