Railroad
Description
When war looms over the American South, Clara LeBlanc faces a choice that could cost her everything. Bound by blood to a slaveholding family, she harbours a dangerous secret ? one that, if discovered, would mean ruin.
As the nation fractures and the first shots are fired, lives become entwined across plantations, battlefields, and the shadowy network of the Underground Railroad. Enslaved men and women risk everything for a chance at liberty, while those who aid them walk a razor's edge between courage and death. Long-held loyalties are tested, and families are torn apart.
From moonlit forests and hidden safe houses to the chaos of early battlefields, Railroad is a sweeping, multi-threaded historical novel of resistance, moral courage, and the choices that define who we become when history closes in.
Immersive and unflinching, Railroad brings the Underground Railroad and the opening years of the American Civil War vividly to life.
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Person
Mark Ellott has retired from his main job as a freelance trainer and assessor working primarily in the rail industry, where he delivered track safety training and assessment as well as providing consultancy services in competence management.
He writes fiction in his spare time. His fiction mainly consists of short stories across a range of genres, and his stories have appeared in all but one of the Underdog Anthologies published by Leg Iron Books.
His novels, are available in print and eBook formats.
He has also published three previous volumes of his short stories, 'Blackjack', 'A Moment in Time', and 'Raven' and a collection of Morning Cloud Western stories, 'Sinistré'.
He has now formed his own publishing imprint Mark Ellott Books.
