The Sweetness of Water

In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner. When the brothers begin to live and work on his farm, the tentative bonds of trust and union begin to blossom between the strangers. But this sanctuary survives on a knife's edge ... A debut novel unique in its power to move and enthral.