The Woman She Left Behind

In the spring of 1862, widowed Rachel Barnum leaves three children with her farm's hired man in Michigan to embark on either a fool's errand or a hero's journey. Traveling alone into the heart of darkness, Rachel needs to find her son Dwight, a Union soldier dying hundreds of miles away on a Missouri battlefield.

When a large Rebel force entrenched on a Mississippi River island stymies her mission, Rachel fears she won't find Dwight in time to save him. And she despairs each day she's gone f...