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Who is that? Sophie breathed. Lydia looked around her, seeing a tall, blond man looking at the displays in the stone window. . . . My goodness. I think I'm having a hot flash! Sophie said . . .He's about the best-looking thing I've ever seen in this town. The summer definitely starts to heat up when an undercover DEA agent moves into a cottage on the farm where Lydia lives and works. Dan is on the trail of whoever is funneling illegal drugs through this quiet, rural area. He can t be distracted by anything, except maybe by the farmer s daughter!
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What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family—Susan and Peter Lesley—who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans’s sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walk...
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