Salvos on the Backwater: A Novel of the Civil War Period

SALVOS ON THE BACKWATER has won praise from critics as an entertaining story of one man's love for Florida. For Jack Nichols' to build a new life along the 1863 Gulf coast, he must avoid contested areas of both the Civil War and everyday life. Chased by a warship up a creek one morning, he and his uncle happen upon the Hamilton homestead. There, the widow Rebecca is struggling mightily to hold her family together in the lush and violent wilderness. Jack is unaware of the dangerous chain of events that will be set in motion by his actions on this fateful day.