Home after having escaped the gallows for spying on the Confederacy, Jana Brady returns to Virginia in search of her soldier-sweetheart, Keeley Cassidy, who is missing from battle. She finds him suffering from amnesia, and she brings him to the Brady farm to recover. Months pass and Keeley's inability to remember their love or fall in love with Jana all over again constantly frustrates her and confuses him. To give Keeley some breathing room, Jana agrees to travel around New York speaking about her time in uniform. She hops aboard her Train to Glory with high hopes of advancing the cause for women's suffrage and equal rights.
Jana is kidnapped, and further scare tactics beyond her release attempt to thwart her ultimate goal of speaking before the 88th state legislature. With a wealthy philanthropist funding her tour and her cavalry comrades and Pinkerton agents watching her back, Jana determines to see her commitment through. She especially refuses to give up when it appears her absence from home is making Keeley's heart grow fonder for her. But a real threat of assassination looms over her. Will Keeley come around to Jana in time to reconcile their love? Will Jana elude death again? In her sequel to Sweet Glory, Lisa Potocar masterfully interweaves adventure romance and suspense into a sweeping portrayal of the women's suffrage and equal rights movement and the courage of key figures in history.
Acclaim for Train to Glory
2016:
First-Place Winner, Arizona Authors' Association Literary Award for Children's Literature
Finalist, in Young Adult Fiction: Arizona Book of the Year
Dante Rossetti Award, Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media
2017:
Finalist in Young Adult Fiction, Desert Rose (Romance Writers of America) Golden Quill Award
"Train to Glory is a fascinating novel that has adventure, romance, action, and intrigue and a cast of interesting, well-defined characters ... is a well-written story that readers will find thought provoking and informative."
--Michelle Stanley, Readers' Favorite Book Reviewer
"The prose is impeccable and the powerful descriptions paint a sizzling setting for readers to revel in. Fast paced and very entertaining, this book will come across as a great source of entertainment for many young and adult readers."
--Divine Zape, Readers' Favorite Book Reviewer
Potocar, Lisa Y.: - Lisa Potocar lives in Upstate New York with her husband and two cuddly keeshonds. Her passion for writing and research stems from her former work in healthcare administration and as a professor. When not tracking some morsel of history to shape into a story, she is a tomboy at heart who loves to hike and bike and has traveled the world to do it. Come chat with Lisa about the American Civil War or the craft of writing right here on Amazon or at her website & blog: lisapotocarauthor.com; FB Page: facebook.com/LisaPotocarAuthor; or Goodreads Author Page: goodreads.com/author/show/5779385.Lisa_Potocar. Her debut novel, Sweet Glory, won First Place in the Young Adult category of the 2009 Maryland Writers' Association's and SouthWest Writers' Novel Contests. Additionally, it captured the Grand Prize in the 2013 Sarasota County Film & Entertainment Office (SCFEO) "TV ME!" contest and a Bronze Medal in the 2016 Readers' Favorite Choice Awards, and it advanced as a Semi-Finalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough (YA) Novel Award. Her second novel, Train to Glory (sequel to Sweet Glory), won First Place in the Children's Literature category in the 2016 Arizona Authors' Association's Published Novel Contest, and it was a Finalist in 2016 for the Arizona Book of the Year and the Chanticleer Books' Dante Rossetti Awards and in 2017 for the Desert Rose (Romance Writers of America) Golden Quill Award-the latter two for YA Historical Fiction.
