Hot Valley

the long version

"It's New England, 1861, and the troubles in the southern states seem a long way off for Jack Edgerton, the spoiled son of a prominent Vermont family. But when he meets and falls in love with Aaron Johnson, the freed son of a slave on the run from Virginia, Edgerton's world is turned upside down. Separated by circumstances, the lovers pursue each other through the escalating madness of the Civil War, and both find themselves forced to choose a side to fight on. After a series of outrageous adventures - including steamy woodland trysts and an impromptu jailhouse orgy that briefly reconciles the warring parties - the war carries both to the Shenandoah Valley in the autumn of 1864 where the conflict is about to reach a bloody, burning climax."--Publisher's information.