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Fifteen yrs old. Wanted:Dead or Alive"do not love a traveler," cautions fifteen-year old Pinkerton broker Maddie Bradford, a lonely, rebellious outsider having a brain burning and a photographic memory. It's 1861, the Civil War has only started and this motherless teenager should transfer with her gift-father from New Hampshire to Washington, DC; a town at war, packed cheek-by-jowl with troopers, Rebel agents, slave catchers, and traitors of lines bent on fighting a war of destruction contrary to the Union, and President Lincoln himself.Maddie's diary, created in solution, obviously, starts with her appearance at her cousin's DC boardinghouse through the very first year of the Civil War, a period as Maddie puts it, "saturated in falls and hazards," when she becomes a courageous Union traveler. And then there's the strange, frustrating Mike Whitestone, a guy who stimulates something similarly harmful in Maddie: Love-In a period of terror.Civil Battle historian, writer, and lecturer Jane Singer provides her distinctive style to Alias Dragonfly.