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Sarah Hamilton moves with her parents and her younger brother Jack to Ireland at the start of the summer holidays. The house which has been in the family for centuries is a beautiful manor attached to the turret of an ancient castle. It is set on rambling parkland near the waters of Lough Mor and a large country village with a colourful past. When her father inherits the house from an elderly aunt they move from upstate New York with dreams of opening a guest house but when the disturbing history of the house becomes apparent their dream may just become a nightmare.

In this brilliant narrative, Fleischman re-creates the first great battle of the Civil War from the points of view of sixteen different participants. Through an unflinching narrative of the battle of Bull Run, human faces begin to emerge from the faded pages of history. Read by a varied cast of narrators, the characters on both sides spring to vivid life as they share their feelings as the battle of Bull Run rages around them.