Under the witness tree - Marianne K Martin

When Anna Grayson dies and leaves her antebellum estate to Dhari Weston, a niece she has never met face to face, it opens the door on family secrets that have been kept hidden for well over a hundred years. These secrets bring professor Erin Hughes into Dhari's life, a lecturer on women in the Civil War who desperately wants to know the hidden past. However, Dhari's goal is to sell the estate as quickly as possible, but the secrets don't rest that easily. It soon becomes apparent that Dhari is the only person who can unlock the past and lay to rest the family ghosts.