Medium sized paperback in tidy read condition. Slight creasing to spine.

Edmund "Mundy" McDowell is barely fourteen years old when the Civil War invades the Shenandoah Valley. He watches in shocked horror as a gang of Union and Confederate deserters loot and burn his home and then brutally murder his parents. From that moment he wanders silent and seemingly invisible through a valley of death. He is guided by a mysterious black dog that has eyes of fire and may or may not be real. And he is haunted by the memories and voices of those who've died.

By the end of his nightmarish journey, Mundy must decide whether to go back to the world of the living - or remain an invisible silent spirit.