The Burning Land! is book two in Stewart’s fictional Overstreet Saga which takes the reader back in time to tell uniquely American stories—full of adventure, excitement, heartbreak, and a tapestry of richly developed characters. This book follows the love of Henry Overstreet of the Twentieth Maine Regiment through Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and the battles of 1864 and of Katie Nash of Maine whom Overstreet’s marries on the Fourth of July 1864 while on a two week leave. Their lives are upended by the tragedies of the American Civil War and then of their westward migration to Chicago, both inflict excruciating trials and loss.

After many years as a trial and appellate lawyer, David O. Stewart became a bestselling writer of history and historical fiction. His first novel, The Lincoln Deception, about the John Wilkes Booth conspiracy, was called the best historical novel of 2013 by Bloomberg View. Sequels include The Paris Deception, set at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and The Babe Ruth Deception, which follows Babe’s first two years with the Yankees. Stewart’s histories explore the writing of the Constitution, the gifts of James Madison, the western expedition and treason trial of Aaron Burr, and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. In February 2021, Dutton published Stewart’s George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father.

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