The Smuggler of Sharpsburg

About this book

In an alternative timeline where the Civil War ended in an 1866 armistice, the United States remains fiercely divided into the industrial Northern Federation and the agrarian Confederate Republic. In 1954, fourteen-year-old Levi Harper is a cynical, quick-fingered forger desperate to secure contraband insulin for his dying mother while hoarding enough cash to flee his suffocating family. When he accepts a dangerous smuggling run across the militarized Potomac shallows at Sharpsburg, he unknowingly reactivates a lethal black-market debt from 1908. Decades earlier, his grandfather, sixteen-year-old Elias Harper, abandoned his own brother during a botched arms run at the exact same ford, a cowardly act that ended in execution and cursed the family's legacy. As Confederate border patrols close in and betrayals mount within his own bloodline, Levi must navigate the treacherous waters of inherited trauma. The narrative braids together Levi's desperate modern-day gambits with Elias's historical downfall, culminating in a harrowing confrontation at a ruined bridge where the family's cycle of abandonment must finally be broken or repeated.

Book details

Genres:

Drama, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Alternative History

Language:

en

Published:

2026-06-17

Content rating:

R