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Based on the real history of Carnton an antebellum home that served as a Confederate hospital Colors of Truth follows the journey of an Irish immigrant arriving in a country where her kind isn't wanted and of a former Federal soldier returning to the scene of a battle that almost destroyed him.In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin Tennessee searchinBased on the real history of Carnton an antebellum home that served as a Confederate hospital Colors of Truth follows the journey of an Irish immigrant arriving in a country where her kind isn't wanted and of a former Federal soldier returning to the scene of a battle that almost destroyed him.In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin Tennessee searching for her younger brother Ryan who according to his last letter was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash--enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim and the O'Toole family only Catriona and her seven-year old sister Nora are left to make the journey.Wade Cunningham one of ten operatives in the newly formed United States Secret Service Agency is on the hunt for counterfeiters. A tip leads him to Franklin and to Carnton the home of wealthy Tennessean John McGavock. The recent murder of a fellow agent mandates that Wade keep his true identity hidden as well as his past service in the Federal Army. But when he receives a note bearing only the name of the deceased agent he realizes someone in town already knows who he really is.As evidence in the case mounts it eventually points to Catriona but Wade is slow to want to believe it. Because his heart is swiftly becoming hers. However Catriona's sole focus is to find her brother and to provide a home and safety for her sister. In doing that she somehow finds herself part of a burial committee for the over two thousand Confederate soldiers who were hastily buried in a field following the Battle of Franklin--and her deepest fear is that Ryan's body is among those shallow graves.(less)