A wonderful split time novel that kept me engrossed from start to finish! The modern day story centers around Sahara and a fight to keep her marriage intact.  Her road is certainly not an easy one, and her attempts to make her husband notice her seem to fall flat at every turn.  But bless him, her husband is a genuine lover of poetry and nature and beauty, and once she realizes that in a newer, deeper way, nothing can stop them. The historic story features Sahara’s ancestor who was brave enough to fight in the Civil War – as a woman soldier!  Forgive my naivete, but I genuinely had NO…