Dispositions of the Soul

When a University of Georgia journalism student walks into a dusty little bookstore in a fading Southern town, he thinks he's chasing a missing colonel and an easy term paper. Instead, Bobby Crenshaw opens a door into a buried war that never made the history books-and a family legacy that refuses to stay dead.¿With the help of Julian Wilkerson, an aging scholar who knows far too much about a town once called Marshall Junction, Bobby unravels the life of Von Wesvolin, a brilliant cavalry officer torn between duty, faith, and a blood feud with the ruthless Burnett clan. From the battlefields of Mexico to the red clay pastures of Georgia, Von's choices ignite a private civil war that will burn his hometown to ashes, remake it as Ashton, and stain his family's name for generations.¿As rumors, secrets, and half-truths are stripped away, Bobby discovers that Marshall Junction's "massacre" was something far more complicated-and far more personal-than the legend he set out to confirm. To tell the real story, he must decide what matters more: the clean, simple narrative the world expects, or the messy, costly truth that could redeem a forgotten soldier and an entire town's soul.¿