Modern Civil War Fiction

A natural disaster was only the beginning. What comes next will test who they are—and who they’re willing to become. Seventeen-year-old Anneliese Morgan was living a normal life—4-H, softball, a future she could almost taste. Then the sky cracked open. A chain of catastrophic disasters shatters the Midwest, leaving cities in ruins and order in freefall. Her older brother, Caleb, is suddenly the only person she can count on, back from a year off-grid with their survivalist father. Alongside him is Evie, the girl he left behind—the girl Annie never expected to rely on. With home ...

Civil war reenactors have set up camp on the grounds of Marshfield Manor. The group is very believable, especially when the unrest spills out of the barracks and inside the sumptuous mansion. Grace Wheaton, the curator and manager of the manor, manages to settle a minor squabble but loses the war when actor Zachary Kincade is found stabbed to death.