They share a father, who owns the house and its slaves. In 1850, at age six, Dahlia Holt is taken from the only home she knows and moved into the big house to serve her two older sisters. With suspicions of her true identity growing and a bounty hunter not far behind, Dahlia must act fast or pay a devastating price. Thomas about her new novel What Passes as Love (Lake Union Publishing, 2021). But when Bo arrives on the estate in shackles, Dahlia decides to risk everything to save his life. Ensconced 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. She also knows she'll never have this chance at freedom again. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to believe she's white, with no family to speak of, and agrees to marry him. A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South. 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. Born into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother-or what happened to her. I was six years old the day Lewis Holt came to take me away.
A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.
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