The Velvet Shadow

Name: The Velvet Shadow
Rating: 4.31 (748 reviews)

by Angela Hunt Book 3 in the The Heirs of Cahira O’Connor series.

First published 1999

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Flanna O’Connor is studying medicine in Boston when civil war cuts her off from her Charleston family. Refusing to wait helplessly, she assumes a male identity and joins the Union Army, where she must conceal her sex while proving that she can endure military discipline and treat the wounded.

Her disguise complicates her relationships with comrades and with Major Alden Haynes, brother of the man she has tentatively agreed to marry. Trapped between armies, Flanna confronts the limits of self-reliance and the moral injuries of war. Her inheritance from Cahira becomes a call to preserve life, even while she is forced to carry a weapon.