But when Bo arrives on the estate in shackles, Dahlia decides to risk everything to save his life. She also knows she’ll never have this chance at freedom again.Įnsconced in the Ross mansion, Dahlia soon finds herself held captive in a different way-as the dutiful wife of a young man who has set his sights on a political future. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to believe she’s white, with no family to speak of, and agrees to marry him. Ten years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Forced to leave behind her best friend, Bo, she lives in a world between black and white, belonging to neither. When Dahlia’s father, the owner of Vesterville plantation, takes her to work in his home as a servant, she’s desperately lonely. I was six years old the day Lewis Holt came to take me away.īorn into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother-or what happened to her. A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.ġ850.
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