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Fire by Night
Christian fiction
Fire by Night
Book 2 of the Refiner's Fire series
429 pages · First published 2003
Julia Hoffman abandons the sheltered life of a wealthy Philadelphia family to become a Union nurse during the Civil War, initially hoping the sacrifice will impress the abolitionist man she admires. Phoebe Bigelow, a misfit from western Virginia, disguises herself as a man and joins the Union army alongside her brothers. Both women encounter suffering that strips away romantic ideas about war and forces them to discover motives stronger than approval or adventure. Lynn Austin’s second Refiner’s Fire novel combines Christian historical fiction, nursing, battlefield experience, and two very different women transformed by what they choose to do in the darkness of war.
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Wartime/battle violence and peril
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