In a country torn in two, only love can weave the pieces together.

Pennsylvania, 1861. The Barretts and the Carters have been friends for a lifetime - summers shared between Maryland tobacco fields and Pennsylvania railways, laughter echoing along the riverbanks. But when the first shots ring out at Fort Sumter, loyalty is no longer simple.

Thomas Barrett answers the Union's call, even as his sister Anna watches her world fray at the edges. James Carter rides for the Confederacy, leaving his sister Caroline to navigate a dangerous web of espionage. Each will face the war in their own way - a battlefield injury, a spy's secret mission, a letter that holds the weight of a heart.

As the seasons turn and the war deepens, friendships are tested, romance blooms in the unlikeliest places, and every letter might be the last. Through love, loss, and divided loyalties, Threads of Blue and Gray is a sweeping historical saga about the bonds that can survive even the fires of war.

April Marie Light is celebrated for crafting sweeping historical romances that blend rich detail, unforgettable characters, and the kind of emotional depth that lingers long after the last page.

Her newest work, Threads of Blue and Gray, is the first book in The Society of Lost Letters series ? an interconnected collection of historical tales inspired by the enduring power of handwritten letters to carry love, longing, and hope across impossible distances. Through these pages, April invites readers to step back into the 18th and 19th centuries, where divided loyalties, family bonds, and matters of the heart are tested against the backdrop of history's most turbulent moments.

Drawing from her passion for the Civil War era, April brings to life two families bound by friendship yet torn apart by conflict, where a single letter can change the course of a life. Her characters are as real as the history she so carefully researches, and her immersive storytelling places readers in the center of every moment ? from the scent of woodsmoke on a winter morning to the scratch of a pen over paper in a candlelit room.

When she isn't writing, April is an audiobook narrator, a devoted keeper of rescued farm fowl at Adventure Ahead Farm Fowl Rescue, and an explorer of historical sites whose streets, architecture, and whispered stories often spark her next novel. She believes love is not just a feeling but a legacy ? a force strong enough to transcend time, war, and loss.

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