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Beneath the Turning Light
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.42 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
When war comes to Baltimore, it does not arrive quietly.
As the nation fractures in 1861, the harbor city becomes a fault line between North and South. Federal cannons turn inward from Federal Hill. Neighbors watch one another with suspicion. Families whisper arguments behind closed doors.
Inside one divided household, loyalty is no longer simple.
Thomas Whitfield believes Maryland must stand with the South. His sister Clara believes survival matters more than pride. When Thomas leaves under cover of darkness to join the Confederate cause, the fracture is no longer political -- it is personal.
Far from Baltimore's harbor, Daniel Harper marches with the Union Army through cornfields, burning forests, trenches, and the blood-soaked ridge at Gettysburg. As the war grinds through the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg, survival becomes less about victory and more about remaining human when hatred demands otherwise.
While armies clash across Virginia and Pennsylvania, Clara serves the wounded in crowded hospital wards, tending blue and gray alike -- determined that compassion will not become another casualty of war.
From the first riot in Baltimore's streets to the surrender at Appomattox, Beneath the Turning Light is a sweeping Civil War novel about divided loyalties, endurance, and the quiet courage required to return home.
Because sometimes the true battle is not fought on the field --
but in the heart.
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