An American

Cuba, 1898. The Spanish-American War ignites across the island, and Ruth Wakefield finds herself orphaned, alone in a foreign land that is tearing itself apart. Daughter of a U.S. Consul, she possesses the kind of American innocence that believes in justice until she discovers how complicated justice becomes when nations go to war. Her secret marriage to a man entangled in revolutionary politics, her dangerous work aiding the liberation of political prisoners, and her deepening connection to Father Felix, a sympathetic priest these threads weave together into a story about what it means to choose love when your country demands allegiance to something else entirely. Esther, waiting for a man the world calls a traitor, adds another layer to Ruth's own impossible choices. This is a novel about the price of conviction, the moral fog of intervention, and the way personal desire and political cause can collapse into each other until no one is certain anymore which sacrifice is heroic and which is merely destruction.