Kathleen Grissom Livres

À 6 ans, Lavinia, orpheline irlandaise, se retrouve esclave dans une plantation de Virginie : un destin bouleversant à travers une époque semée de violences et de passions... En 1791, Lavinia perd ses parents au cours de la traversée les emmenant en Amérique. Devenue la propriété du capitaine du navire, elle est envoyée sur sa plantation et placée sous la responsabilité d'une jeune métisse, Belle. Mais c'est Marna Mae, une femme généreuse et courageuse, qui prendra la fillette sous son aile. Car Belle a bien d'autres soucis : cachant le secret de ses origines, elle vit sans cesse sous la menace de la maîtresse du domaine. Ecartelée entre deux mondes, témoin des crimes incessants commis envers les esclaves, Lavinia parviendra-t-elle à trouver sa place ? Car si la fillette fait de la communauté noire sa famille, sa couleur de peau lui réserve une autre destinée.

A heart racing story about a man's treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the Underground Railroad on a mission to save the boy he swore to protect.

"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota--despite Farwell's efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point."-- Provided by publisher