# The Jackal's Mistress - Paperback

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by **Chris Bohjalian** (Author)

**In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she's willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the _New York Times_ bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as _Hour of the Witch_ and _The Sandcastle Girls._**

Virginia, 1864--Libby Steadman's husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him in the night, fearing him dead in a Union prison camp, her days are spent running a gristmill with her teenage niece, a hired hand, and his wife, all the grain they can produce requisitioned by the Confederate Army. It's an uneasy life in the Shenandoah Valley, the territory frequently changing hands, control swinging back and forth like a pendulum between North and South, and Libby awakens every morning expecting to see her land a battlefield.  
And then she finds a gravely injured Union officer left for dead in a neighbor's house, the bones of his hand and leg shattered. Captain Jonathan Weybridge of the Vermont Brigade is her enemy - but he's also a human being, and Libby must make a terrible decision: Does she leave him to die alone? Or does she risk treason and try to nurse him back to health? And if she succeeds, does she try to secretly bring him across Union lines, where she might negotiate a trade for news of her own husband?  
A vivid and sweeping story of two people navigating the boundaries of love and humanity in a landscape of brutal violence, _The Jackal's Mistress_ is a heart-stopping new novel, based on a largely unknown piece of American history, from one of our greatest storytellers.

### Author Biography

CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of twenty-five books, including _The Princess of Las Vegas, The Lioness, Hour of the Witch_, _Midwives_, and _The Flight Attendant_, which has been made into a MAX limited series starring Kaley Cuoco. His other books include _The Red Lotus, The Guest Room_; _Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands_; _The Sandcastle Girls_; _Skeletons at the Feast_; _and The Double Bind._ His novels _Secrets of Eden_, _Midwives_, and _Past the Bleachers_ were made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than thirty- five languages. He is also a playwright (_Wingspan_ and _Midwives_). He lives in Vermont and can be found at chrisbohjalian.com or on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Litsy, and Goodreads.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.08 x 9.06 x 6.2 IN

**Publication Date:** March 11, 2025

**Large Print:** Yes

## Details

- **Price:** 38.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Historical, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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