If you liked the movie Cold Mountain" you will love The Confederette. Historical fiction.

West Virginia author, Rose Stadler, is a social worker turned author, with heavy emphasis on historical research for all of her 20 books. Since her book has been released in December, 2003, the reviews on the Publish America website have been astounding, with readers urging her to send her books to Oprahs Book Club and turn this into a movie. The characters are strong, the pace is face, and The Confederette is a page-turner that will appeal to audiences of all ages and genders.

(PRWEB) February 10, 2004 --Based on fact, turned into fiction, The Confederette gets its hands dirty at a time when, after the Civil War, the women of the south had to endure life without men to support them, without money to buy food, and without the full protection of the law. Little is written during the years between 1865 and 1877 when Posse Comitatus was declared unconstitutional.

Leila Gale MacDonald, an impoverished soapmaker from rural Pottsboro, North Carolina, is raped after the Civil War by a gang of renegade Union soldiers, occupationalist roaming the backwoods looking for prey. Pregnant and alone on the family farm, she begs for death. But having a stronger will, she seeks justice where none is to be found. After her horse is killed, and her house burned to the ground, she enters the lions den with a vengeance and files charges against the men who ruined her.

Southern justice at its best, one of the rapists is tarred and feathered, but Leila finds herself tried as a murderess and horse thief, trapped in a jail cell, a date with hangman. UNTIL, she creates an army of widows, children and crippled Confederate veterans who take back the town, discovering a vipers nest of thieves who have stolen land from the most destitute.

ISBN# 1-4137-0191-4, 246 pages,

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