{"id":57860,"date":"2019-04-04T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57860"},"modified":"2019-04-04T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:28:33","slug":"an-extraordinary-union-the-loyal-league-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57860","title":{"rendered":"An Extraordinary Union: The Loyal League #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kensingtonbooks.com\/book.aspx\/34420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>An Extraordinary Union: The Loyal League #1<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kensingtonbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kensington Books<\/a><br \/>\n320 pages<br \/>\n2017-03-28<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781496707444<br \/>\nePub ISBN: 9781496707451<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alyssacole.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alyssa Cole<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kensingtonbooks.com\/book.aspx\/34420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kensingtonbooks.com\/file.aspx\/mainFilesystem?PreviewImages%2f9781496707444%2f9781496707444-1.png\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> TOP 10 ROMANCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A <em>Bookpage<\/em> TOP PICK<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A <em>Kirkus<\/em> BEST BOOKS OF 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A <em>Vulture<\/em> TOP 10 ROMANCE BOOKS OF 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> BEST BOOKS OF 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A <em>Booklist<\/em> TOP 10 ROMANCE FICTION 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil War<\/a> rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massachusetts<\/a>, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South<\/a>\u2014to spy for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_Army\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union Army<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm McCall is a detective for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pinkerton&#8217;s Secret Service<\/a>. Subterfuge is his calling, but he\u2019s facing his deadliest mission yet\u2014risking his life to infiltrate a Rebel enclave in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two undercover agents who share a common cause\u2014and an undeniable attraction\u2014Malcolm and Elle join forces when they discover a plot that could turn the tide of the war in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confederacy&#8217;s<\/a> favor. Caught in a tightening web of wartime intrigue, and fighting a fiery and forbidden love, Malcolm and Elle must make their boldest move to preserve the Union at any cost\u2014even if it means losing each other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two undercover agents who share a common cause\u2014and an undeniable attraction\u2014Malcolm and Elle join forces when they discover a plot that could turn the tide of the war in the Confederacy&#8217;s favor. Caught in a tightening web of wartime intrigue, and fighting a fiery and forbidden love, Malcolm and Elle must make their boldest move to preserve the Union at any cost\u2014even if it means losing each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,15,6940,20,25],"tags":[29674,29675],"class_list":["post-57860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-alyssa-cole","tag-kensington-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57861,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57860\/revisions\/57861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}