THE SPRINGHOUSE SECRET

One morning, Addie Faulkner finds a wounded Union scout hidden beneath her family's springhouse; she has thirty seconds to decide whether to scream, stay silent, or become a traitor to everything she was raised to believe.

She chooses silence. It costs her everything, and gives her a life worth living.
Within weeks, Addie is smuggling fugitives past Confederate pickets, forging papers in a widow's parlor, and building a covert network disguised as nothing more suspicious than a ladies' sewing circle. But her husband is fighting three hundred miles away for the very cause she's working to defeat, a patient and brilliant provost marshal has started asking questions no lie can fully answer, and the wounded stranger who first pulled her into danger is asking for something no honest wife should give away.

This is a Civil War historical fiction novel about the cost of secrets between people who love each other, and the courage it takes to become someone your own family wouldn't recognize. Every letter Addie writes her husband is a small, careful lie. Every dawn run risks the gallows for everyone she loves. And the closer the war creeps toward its end, the more she has to lose - a marriage built on honesty, a sisterhood built on trust, and a truth she isn't sure anyone can survive hearing.

Readers who loved discovering hidden strength in ordinary women through wartime historical romance and stories of sisterhood under pressure will recognize Addie's journey from dutiful bride to the woman running an entire underground resistance - one dangerous, honest choice at a time.

If you're looking for your next unforgettable historical fiction book club pick - one with a forbidden love story, a fierce sisterhood, and a heroine who refuses to look away - start The Springhouse Secret tonight.