Bonnets and bugles series

Despite being on opposite sides during the Civil War, Jeff and Leah are determined to continue their friendship.

Fourteen-year-old Leah Carter lives with her uncle in Virginia, awaiting the end of the Civil War. As the hospitals fill, Uncle Silas volunteers the use of his home as a medical center, and they move to their country house. But the house isn't empty! Superstitious townsfolk believe it to be haunted, but Leah finds something even more frightening--a discovery that challenges her faith.

Jeff is not jealous. Of course he isn't. It's just that a rich Southern boy and an escaped Yankee prisoner are both paying too much attention to his lifelong friend Leah.

When Royal Carter enlists in the Union Army and his best friend signs up with the Confederates, the two young men struggle to come to grips with life's challenges.

When Leah attempts to make Jeff jealous through her flirtations with Cecil, she creates problems for all, even as the Civil War draws to a close.