Risking the Dream

In the first five books in the Between Two Flags series, readers followed three remarkable young people fighting to achieve their individual goals. Each has dealt with his own hopes and ambitions in the midst of danger and turmoil in the American Civil War. Now in book #6:
NAT falsely charged with stealing from his master desperately seeks to flee to freedom on the Underground Railroad. First he must escape hounds pursuing him through a swamp where other fugitives have vanished forever.
GIDEON excited to work for the Richmond newspaper is given a dangerous assignment which could land him in trouble with the Confederate authorities but he chooses the risk to fulfill his writing dreams.
EMILY'S frustrating relationship with William, her slave-holding cousin, reaches a climax when he forces her to leave Briarstone with no money and nowhere to go. She's frantic to obtain another pass to allow her to reach Illinois in time for Christmas.