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A young man from Maine fights for social equality in New Orleans after the Civil War while pursuing a serial killer, becoming enmeshed in voodoo, and falling in love. Much like Louisiana's famous gumbo, Love in A Time Of Hate: New Orleans During Reconstruction is a spicy dish of varied ingredients. The main theme is the struggle for social equality between Whites, Blacks, and Creoles, but flavor is added with the subplots of politics, voodoo, murder, love, and hate. New Orleans becomes a literal battleground as carpetbaggers, scalawags, Creoles, and recently freed slaves fight against the entrenched southern plantation notion of white superiority.

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Love in a Time of Hate's ability to juxtapose different forces, special interests, and perspectives against the backdrop of both endings and new beginnings will intrigue and delight historical fiction readers-especially those with a particular affection for Louisiana culture.... The characterization is well done, there is no shying away from the sometimes-brutal events that challenged both sides, and Matthew Langdon Cost takes the time to build a saga that is compelling and hard to put down as Emmett finds his way through a morass of social conflict and tries to do what is right for both himself and the greater good. -Midwest Book Review

"""Love in a Time of Hate's ability to juxtapose different forces, special interests, and perspectives against the backdrop of both endings and new beginnings will intrigue and delight historical fiction readers-especially those with a particular affection for Louisiana culture.... The characterization is well done, there is no shying away from the sometimes-brutal events that challenged both sides, and Matthew Langdon Cost takes the time to build a saga that is compelling and hard to put down as Emmett finds his way through a morass of social conflict and tries to do what is right for both himself and the greater good."" -Midwest Book Review"

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Over the years, Matthew Langdon (aka Matt) Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable. Cost published Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard in 2015, in which Emmett Collins grows into manhood during the Civil War. Emmett returns in Love in a Time of Hate: New Orleans During Reconstruction (Encircle Publications, August 2021). I am Cuba: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution was published by Encircle Publications in 2020. Encircle has also published Cost's Mainely Mystery series including Mainely Power, Mainely Fear, and Mainely Money, as well as the Clay Wolfe / Port Essex Mysteries, beginning with Wolfe Trap. Mind Trap will be published in December of 2021, and Mouse Trap in the spring of 2022. Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper, and now spends his days at the computer, writing.

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