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Initially released as Within the Lion’s DenWinner of the San-Diego Book Award for Best Historical Fiction   Director’s Note, Langum Prize for National Historical Fiction   1861: The battle that’s been making for ten years has erupted, pitting North against South. Worrying that England may help the Confederate cause, President Lincoln directs Charles Francis Adams, daughter of John Quincy Adams, to Manchester. Nevertheless when Charles comes, followed closely by his son Henry, he finds the Language happen to be making warships for the South. As Charles embarks on a higher-stakes game of diplomacy and espionage, Carol reconnects with his university buddy Baxter Sams, a Southerner who has fallen in love with Englishwoman Julia Birch.