War on the Water: Red River by P. G. Nagle

Marie Hawkland: A Louisiana belle, mistress of a thousand slaves

Nat Wheat: a Union Navy carpenter who dreams of piloting his own gunboat

Jamie Russell: a Confederate captain, fighting a running battle with the Yankees through swamps and bayous

Their lives collide at Belle View Plantation where the Red River flows into the Mississippi and the Civil War becomes a struggle for control of the country’s largest waterway.

Elderly Colonel Hawkland and his beautiful young wife, Marie, must tread a wary...