Blue Asylum by Kate Hepinstall
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Iris Dunleavy was sent to Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a good wife. Her crime? She disagreed with her slave-holding husband and helped his slaves to escape. Even worse in his eyes, she escaped with them. At Sanibel, she meets Ambrose Weller, a confederate soldier. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from the war, but the civil war-era doctor just considers him as crazy as the others. Iris and Ambrose fall in love, and conspire with the doctor's twelve-year-old son to get off the island. But where will they go? Who will take them in? Can Iris handle Ambrose's fits of rage and grief? This is a beautifully-written novel with layers of complexity.
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