The Women Who Stayed - Book Three

“Say the name. Say it before history forgets it.” — Sarah Freeman

Book Three of the Freeman Legacy Saga.

Sarah Cole was fifteen the year she understood that Liberty Grove was being kept alive mostly by women, and that almost none of them were being written down for it. The men had ridden away to soldier. The women stayed, and stayed, and held the town together with their hands: the fields, the school, the ledgers, the burying, the waiting.

So Sarah starts writing it down. Out of a hard-won press and a stubborn idea comes The Liberty Voice, a truthful paper for a free people, and with it a fight over who gets remembered. She keeps the record the official ones left out: Clara Bell’s ledger, what Esther knew, the woman who wore the coat, the school that would carry the Freeman name. And when the call to soldier comes again, the women face the same road their mothers did.

The first two books were about the men who rode away. This is the book about who they rode away from, and without it none of the rest could have been written down at all.

Twenty-eight chapters, from the town the soldiers left to the ground they held, with a historical afterword that separates fact from fiction.

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