The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

In the middle of the last century, Lidie Newton and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into America's heartland. To Lidie, Kansas seems like a new place entirely. We can't tell if anything we already know is true. The truth proves harsher than any would-be homesteaders around her could have imagined. Lidie, her family and her friends, find themselves on a faultline as two great American forces rumble and crash against each other, soon to erupt into the bloodiest war the world has seen yet seen - The American Civil War.