Ride Proud, Rebel!

The Civil War is dying, but fifteen-year-old Boyd Rennie has never learned to retreat. When he runs away from his grandfather's brutal household to join Confederate cavalry, his older cousin Drew must do the only thing left: follow him into the mess of it, protect him through campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee, watch him become a soldier in the only school that will have him. Drew carries his own scars, a grandfather who hated him since birth for his mother's marriage to a Texan, a cause that's bleeding out. As the Confederacy crumbles, the real campaign isn't against the Yankees but against time itself, against the end coming for everything they know. Andre Norton delivers a raw adventure where honor and survival collide, and the only victory might be making it out alive.