Cut to the Heart

A fictionalized telling of Clara Barton (of Red Cross fame), and her work on the front lines of the Civil War in South Carolina. Clara finds herself in love with a married soldier and discovers that the war isn't the only evil that threatens the Gullah people of the Lowcountry.
I felt there was a little too much going on here and I think the book as a whole suffered for it. The war, the nursing and the romance would have been enough material but the addition of the 'sadist predator' portions felt garish and jarring.

Enjoyable overall. A little slow in places. Makes me want to read about the real Clara Barton.