THE CIVIL WAR WAS OVER. HIS BATTLE HAS JUST BEGUN. After Appomattox, wounded Rebel cavalry officer and physician Benjamin "Doc" Kelley abandons the family plantation in Georgia and flees west, determined to outrun the horrifying nightmares of the Civil War and to heal the heartbreak of a Southern belle's suspicion that he has become a coward and the resulting dissolution of their engagement. Invigorated by a passionate commitment to saving lives with his medical knowledge, galvanized in his desire to leave killing and death behind, Ben stows a promise made to his dying father into a train of...