Harrison Raines is a witness to the very first battle between the Union and Confederate armies. But he is also the last person to see a Federal officer alive before his death-a death that has nothing to do with war, and everything to do with cold-blooded murder.
"Michael Kilian has triumphantly opened his Civil War mystery series." -Harriet Klausner
First in the exciting new Civil War mystery series
"...on July 21,1861, [Raines] finds himself in the ... heart of the [Civil] war's first battle...and is the last person to see a Northern major before he was killed fleeing the Rebels...[T]his seeming act of cowardice is actually a cover-up of a...murder." (from back cover)