Christine E. (Scaper) - , reviewed on 9/5/2006 + 240 more book reviews

A steamboat whistle splits the air one April evening in 1861,and with it, all is changed for fifteen-year-old Tilly Pruitt and her family. They've been living in a muddy little Mississippi River town in Illinois, fearing the approach of the Civil War. Tilly's twin brother, Noah, however , has been marching and drilling with the other boys in town, and all of them are ready to soldier---some for the North, some for the South.
When the Rob Roy from New Orleans docks at the landing, two remarkable figures come ashore: a commanding and glamorous young lady in a rustling hoop skirt and her darker, silent servant. Who are these two fascinating strangers? Is the servant a slave? Tilly's mother invites them both to room and board at her house, and with that simple gesture, the whole world shifts for the Pruitts as well as their visitors.

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