A Kiss in the Ashes

Where Love Defied the Gallows

By: Carol C. Roberts, Gary M. Roberts

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A Kiss in the Ashes: Where Love Defied the Gallows
Georgia, 1865. The war is over, but its shadows still linger.
Abigale McKinley has already buried too much—her brother lost to the battlefield, her family clinging to survival on a ravaged farm, her heart worn thin by grief. The last thing she expects is a stranger to ride into her life bearing both devastating news…and a fragile spark of hope.
Joseph Brennan was once a Union soldier who refused to fire on men who didn’t know the war had ended. Branded a deserter for choosing mercy over murder, he carries scars no battlefield ever healed—and a secret that could cost him his life. When fate delivers him into Abigale’s world, their connection is immediate, forbidden, and undeniable.
As an unrelenting lieutenant hunts Joseph with the intent to hang him, Abigale must choose between fear and the fierce love she never expected to find. With her family taken prisoner and the gallows rising at dawn, one town must decide whether to bow to injustice—or stand together for a man who risked everything for the truth.
In the ashes of war, where hope seems impossible and love is dangerous, one kiss will challenge death itself.
A sweeping historical romance of courage, sacrifice, and a love bold enough to defy the noose.