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Daughter of Twin Oaks
Christian romance
Daughter of Twin Oaks
Book 1 of the A Secret Refuge series
336 pages · First published 2000
Eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood leaves her family’s Kentucky plantation during the Civil War with her young brother and the remaining Twin Oaks Thoroughbreds. She is trying to fulfill a promise to her dying father by reaching an uncle in Missouri while also escaping a Confederate officer determined to punish her for refusing him. Traveling by night and hiding by day, the group must avoid soldiers, hunger, illness, and the devastation spreading across the divided country. Lauraine Snelling opens A Secret Refuge with Christian historical fiction, horses, and a heroine forced into leadership as she fights to preserve what remains of her family.
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Wartime/battle violence and peril · Mild romantic content, including kissing
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