Description: "When Sarah Talton's father suddenly passes away in the summer of 1860, she is left with ... the family farm and slaves to oversee ... She embraces her father's iron will and hardhearted demeanor, [b]ut when she falls in love with a French merchant ... and is given charge of a runaway slave ... Sarah begins to question the values and beliefs instilled by her father and upheld by her Winston, North Carolina community."--Page 4 of cover.
