{"product_id":"book-bnmo","title":"The Hidden Light of Northern Fires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In a poignant and authentic tone, narrator Robin Miles brings her love of the theater to the fore in the telling of a little-known true chapter of the Civil War...Miles gives a compelling and very human voice to a time of strife and redemption.\" — \u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Light of Northern Fires\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to take over the household duties and management of her family’s farm, while her brother Leander avoids his own responsibilities. Helping runaways is the only thing that makes her life in Town Line bearable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen escaped slave Joe Bell collapses in her father’s barn, Mary is determined to help him cross to freedom in nearby Canada. But the wounded fugitive is haunted by his vengeful owner, who relentlessly hunts him up and down the country, and his sister, still trapped as a slave in the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the countryside is riled by the drumbeat of civil war, rebels and soldiers from both sides bring intrigue and violence of the brutal war to the town and the farm, and threaten to destroy all that Mary loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Light of Northern Fires:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Splendid—a distinctive clear-eyed perspective on a fresh corner of the Civil War.\" —Charles Frazier, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wise and timely book.\" —Ron Rash, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSerena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49382055575856,"sku":"BDbnmo","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49382055608624,"sku":"40bnmo","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/133478-bnmo-Square.jpg?v=1735033917","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bnmo","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}