Confederate Rose

by Susan Macatee

Disguised as a man to serve with her husband as a soldier in the Confederate Army, Irish immigrant Katie Rose O'Reilly vows to remain in the ranks and seek revenge on Yankees after her husband is killed at Sharpsburg. When she falls and almost drowns in a swollen stream, Southerner Alexander Hart, a Yankee spy, saves Katie from drowning, then nurses her through a resulting fever, keeping his identity secret from the feisty and beautiful Rebel soldier even as he finds himself falling in love with her. Can Katie reconcile her loyalties with her love?

Genres: Romance

240 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2009

About the author

Susan Macatee writes American Civil War and American Victorian romance, some with a paranormal twist. From time travels to vampire tales, her stories are always full of love and adventure.

She’s spent many years as a Civil War civilian reenactor with the 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment. Besides writing romances set during the Civil War, she’s a big science fiction fan and hopes to encorporate that genre into a future romance story.

Her other loves are reading most genres of romance, rooting on her favorite baseball team, the Philadelphia Phillies, and spending time with her husband and three sons.

Reviews

[Susan Swensen]

Fun, relaxing read. Civil War. Sites in VA and Gettysburg. Katie, Rebel, Alex, Yankee, main characters. Love story mixed with war.

[Book Utopia]

I was thoroughly bored. The author's style is all tell not show, and she attempts to cram an epic-style story into 60k. Most scenes are very short, and it jumps perspective, time, and/or place every 1k or less. It makes the style choppy, with no time at all for me to actually get any feel for personalities beyond stereotypes.