Terry Heflin returns with "Desperate Odds" Book 4 in her Civil War spy series

Post-Civil War agents for the Secret Service, Rebecca and Robert Harper, are on the trail of un-reconstructed Confederates one again in this latest spy thriller from a name familiar to my listeners! Dr. Terry Heflin is an expert researcher for her novels and a great storyteller as well. Her characters are reasonable, colorful, and occasionally lethal.

The time is 1866, a year after the War ended, and many disgruntled Rebels have headed West. Some came for a fresh uncomplicated start, but others (such as Ramsey McNeil) have much bigger and bolder plans.  He is assembling a small army of ex-Confederates through the secret organization exposed in previous novels in the series. The Knights of the Golden Circle have chosen to move into the territories of the West, specifically Colorado, as there is great mineral wealth there and much territory. Their hopes: to build a rival nation to the USA!

Rebecca and Robert arrive in Denver separately: she poses as a Rebel with a family connection to great wealth which would interest McNeil, while he pretends to be a disgruntled Union deserter who wants to join the growing military forces of ex-Confederates. Rebecca is shocked to find her dear cousin Elise in Denver, engaged to the vulgar Ramsey McNeil! They have meet two other old friends, professional gambler John Ashburn and his partner in crime, Lily. They are also playing a very dangerous game in attempting to procure the deed to a large tract of land which Ramsey McNeil desperately wants. He is not a nice man, nor anyone to take lightly.

When the fix is in, the undercover Secret Service agents slowly tighten the noose around McNeil’s neck. But the threat on them all is very serious and could turn deadly at any false move.