This was a hard book for me to read because its setting and circumstances were so relentlessly grim. It's a good read though. The hero and heroine were both abused children living in pre Civil War Kentucky. The heroine was brought from England after watching her mother's death. There's abolitionist action-- it's just grim. I liked it overall, but dang, it was harsh. The hero winds up fighting for the Union, his brother for the Confederates, the heroine moves in with his family because her adopted family all die... It's historically accurate, but the history itself was so darn grim. I complain sometimes about stories where everyone is so nice, nothing happens... I think the difference is that the hero's issues make him so unpleasant. I understand him, but he's hard to warm up to.
