Contraband Desire

Healing the Wounds of War

The Civil War was drawing to its bitter close, and runaway slaves were streaming across the Union lines by the thousands, fleeing the ravaged plantations of the South. Elizabeth Whitley, a courageous abolitionist dedicated to seeing them build new lives as free men and women, desperately needed help. She found a reluctant ally in Quinn Erskine, the Union officer whose unwelcome duty it was to care for the runaways. And she found something more -- a fine man, torn by divided loyalties, who held in his tender embrace the promise of a love that could rise from the ashes of war.