Dark Shadows

<b> A fast-paced, action-packed historical romance set during the last days of the Old South </b> <br> When unimaginable calamities strike, Mercy Carver, a poor London woman, wonders what she has done to deserve such immeasurable suffering. It is only when she faces imminent death in the snow and ice-encrusted Virginia wilderness that she finally understands the power of destiny. <br> Mercy is passionate. She loves and hates in equal measure. Can love and hatred give her the strength she needs now to reach a Northern state, and free a runaway slave wanted for murders, she committed? <br> America and her people are strangled in an uncompromising political stalemate. Southern states have seceded from the Union, and a civil war is imminent. <br> Mercy Carver: her journey is just beginning. <p> <b>Also by Jana Petken</b> <br> The Guardian of Secrets <br> <b>Review</b> <br> "A fast-paced, action-packed historical romance set during the last days of the Old South." <i>Kirkus Review</i> </p><p> "A female Dickens." <i>Amazon Reviewer</i>) <br></p>