Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

Four women, each with her own desperate reason to lie, navigate the deadly games of espionage during the American Civil War.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow uses her D.C. salon as cover for Confederate intelligence; Belle Boyd becomes a spy and entangled in a dangerous romance with Stonewall Jackson; Emma Edmondson disguises herself as Frank Thompson to fight on the Union side; and Elizabeth Van Lew builds an underground network of spies and abolitionists beneath the guise of a dutiful Virginian wife.

Told through each woman's own voice, this is a story of loyalty, deception, and identity tested by war.