No one knows their names or how they got to the islands.
In this debut novel based on true events, author Ann Herlong-Bodman offers the story of one such woman-Sarah Sarah Edings, a bold and remarkable planter's daughter who returns to Edisto Island after Union soldiers invade Port Royal.
With the war raging all around her, Edings fronts as a teacher for freed slaves while bravely passing secret dispatches behind enemy lines to her embattled Confederate comrades. The danger is ever-present-resentful ex-slaves, renegade rebels and rampaging blue coats. But the biggest danger of all comes when she falls in love a handsome young Yankee officer.
The novel includes portraits of historical trail-blazers like Lucy Holcomb Pickens, the "Queen of the Confederacy" and wife of South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens-the only woman to have her likeness on Confederate money.
Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Voices Over Water will touch the hearts of readers on both sides of the Mason-Dixon.