Redeemed by Blood

The idyllic life of young Dade Green in Mississippi changes with the death of his parents and the Civil War. His uncle compels him to enroll in Virginia Military Institute and he becomes caught up in the Civil War. Desperate for money, he sells his friend and slave, Ebenezer, and later meets up with him, only to witness his horrible death. Dade loses a leg during the war imprisonment in the Union prison camp at Ft. Delaware. As if recapitulating wartime horrors and ambivalence about slavery, his son, becomes joins the KKK. At the hands of the KKK black man meets an appalling death, and his killers go unpunished. Dade dies with guilt so terrible that his ghost haunts the family, and his old home for several generations. Attempts at exorcism fail, until his "sins" are redeemed and his soul released by a transforming event involving his great-great-great grandson.

About the Author

Diane Marquart Moore is a writer living in Sewanee, Tennessee during the summer and in New Iberia, Louisiana during the winter. She has written novels, articles, and non-fiction books, has been an editor and is a retired archdeacon of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana. Diane has lived in Louisiana, Texas, Maine, Tennessee, and in southern Iran during the reign of the Shahanshah. She writes a weekly blog entitled "A Words Worth."

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