Fiction debut – Daren Wang’s THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF NORTHERN FIRES, exploring through fiction a largely unknown Civil War-era story about the only town north of the Mason-Dixon to secede from the Union, set near the last stop on the underground railroad where abolitionist farmer Mary Willis helps smuggle runaway slaves to freedom in Canada, but when she falls in love with a fugitive, the weight of the war comes crashing down on her, pitched as inspired by the true history of Town Line, NY and the Willis family, to Laurie Chittenden at Thomas Dunne Books, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
