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Firefly
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Firefly

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Grace Kieler had a comfortable life in Charleston until the outbreak of the Civil War. After losing everyone but her sister and surviving the Great Fire of 1861. Grace found herself in the uniform of her dead Confederate brother, Henry, her sister donning the gray of their little brother, Will. Both fought at Antietam but only one survivedAfter the war Grace, still living her life as Henry, tries to find work during spring planting near Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Henry finds himself on a farm owned by a blind widow, Virginia Klaising. As Henrys secret becomes harder to conceal the two realize they have something precious an unspoken candor that reveals the soul.

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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateDec 13, 2004
ISBN9781468510423
Firefly
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Whitney Hamilton

Whitney Hamilton grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and Birmingham, Alabama.  She has written numerous plays and screenplays.  “The Thistle Dwellers” won first place for playwrighting at the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Conference 1998 and was nominated for the Mentorship Program through Cherry Lane Alternative Theatre.  The screenplay version of “The Thistle Dwellers” was a semi-finalist at the Austin Heart of Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2000.  Her screenplay “In Search of the Monkey Girl” won honorable mention at the Slamdance Film Festival 1997.  Her play “Union” was produced Off-Broadway in 2001 and inspired this, her first novel.  She is the writer/director of the upcoming independent film “My Brother’s War” set during the American Civil War.

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