Train to Glory
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Home after having escaped the gallows for spying on the Confederacy, Jana Brady returns to Virginia in search of her soldier-sweetheart, Keeley Cassidy, who is missing from battle. She finds him suffering from amnesia, and she brings him to the Brady farm to recover. Months pass and Keeley's inability to remember their love or fall in love with Jana all over again constantly frustrates her and confuses him. To give Keeley some breathing room, Jana agrees to travel around New York speaking about her time in uniform. She hops aboard her Train to Glory with high hopes of advancing the cause for women's suffrage and equal rights.Jana is kidnapped, and further scare tactics beyond her release attempt to thwart her ultimate goal of speaking before the 88th state legislature. With a wealthy philanthropist funding her tour and her cavalry comrades and Pinkerton agents watching her back, Jana determines to see her commitment through. She especially refuses to give up when it appears her absence from home is making Keeley's heart grow fonder for her. But a real threat of assassination looms over her. Will Keeley come around to Jana in time to reconcile their love? Will Jana elude death again? In her sequel to Sweet Glory, Lisa Potocar masterfully interweaves adventure romance and suspense into a sweeping portrayal of the women's suffrage and equal rights movement and the courage of key figures in history.Acclaim for Train to Glory2016:First-Place Winner, Arizona Authors’ Association Literary Award for Children’s LiteratureFinalist, in Young Adult Fiction: Arizona Book of the YearDante Rossetti Award, Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media2017:Finalist in Young Adult Fiction, Desert Rose (Romance Writers of America) Golden Quill Award“Train to Glory is a fascinating novel that has adventure, romance, action, and intrigue and a cast of interesting, well-defined characters … is a well-written story that readers will fin
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