Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 Contemporary But when her mother dies

But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father—a man she’s never met

but she is going to need all the help she can get if she wants to save their mother and take back Zehaira from the alchemists’ rule

He'd never wanted anyone enough to chase them…until he met her

Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union

but he has unfinished business at Dominic House

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 Contemporary But when her mother diesExploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion shows how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s. The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed unsuitable for the type of agriculture that depended on slave labor, but they lay south of the line where slavery was permitted by