Due to a blow on the head, Tom is almost as uncertain as Becky he’s fighting to regain his memories throughout most of the novel. Likewise, Becky’s uncertainty about Tom’s loyalty creates a delicious struggle against her instinctive desire. Tom embodies his nation’s ideal hero-roguish, tender, and willing to surrender her love to Alfred if that guarantees her safety. As Becky and Tom’s mutual passion rebounds, they discover a sinister war scheme and other surprises connected, as in Twain’s work, to American life and its spirit.īurke proves adept at romantic tension as Tom and Becky alternately resist and bask in their attraction to one another. But Becky’s would-be fiancé, Union Captain Alfred Temple, interrupts, hellbent on marrying her against her will. When an anonymous enemy frames her father, Becky and Tom set out to absolve him. Now a spy, Tom finds her downtrodden yet plucky, determined to protect her father from arrest for treason. Seven years after Tom Sawyer abandoned Becky Thatcher, his childhood sweetheart, he stumbles back into her life. Author of a dozen novels, Burke presents a triumphant romance-adventure amid Civil War strife in this engaging unofficial sequel to Mark Twain’s classic.
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