Joan Koster lives with her coon cat named Cleo in a house stacked to the ceiling with books. A published author of scholarly works in the fields of ethnography, education, anti-racism, and the arts, and an award-winning writer of fiction, she became fascinated by the Civil War while renovating her 1860s farmhouse. Her first two novels in her Forgotten Women series have won numerous awards. She is in the process of revising her third novel Prairie Cinderella which focuses on the life of Vinnie Ream, a once celebrated American sculptress.
She’s going to be the greatest orator of the Civil War!
Eighteen-year-old Anna Dickinson is nothing like the women around her, and she knows it. Gifted with a powerful voice, a razor-sharp wit, and unbounded energy, the diminutive curly-head sets out to surpass the men of her day as she rails against slavery and pushes for women’s rights.
Only two things can bring her downfall—the entangling love she has for her devoted companion, Julia, and an assassin’s bullet.
She refused to be silenced!
Brilliant, corseted, and haunted by spirits from the Borderlands, Ida Craddock is outraged by unmarried women’s lack of knowledge about what happens in the marriage bed.
Turning her back on the tight constrictions of Victorian society, Ida strikes out on her own as a marriage counselor. She soon runs afoul of Anthony Comstock, the nation’s Anti-Obscenity Postal Inspector.
Infuriated, the Inquisitor of Smut vows to destroy her work and silence her forever. With prison looming, Ida and her guardian angels must prepare for a battle they may not be able to win.
*All proceeds from the Forgotten Women Series will be donated to the Freedom to Read Foundation.
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