Battlefields and Saratoga Letters

Battles come in all shapes and sizes. From the “friendly” competition between football rivals to jealous backstage manipulations to repeat surgeries to fix a lingering problem to even breaking free from a foreign power to achieve independence. Author Elaine Cooper knows firsthand about those surgeries after facing two of them this summer alone and her newest book, Saratoga Letters, starts with a tale from the Revolutionary War.

The opening heroine, Abigail, finds herself in the middle of mult...