Kathleen Grissom Knihy

Keď sedemročná Lavinia počas plavby z Írska osirie, skončí na prahu tabakovej plantáže, kde má žiť a pracovať v kuchyni s otrokmi. V starostlivosti Belle, nemanželskej dcéry majiteľa plantáže, sa Lavinia silno naviaže na svoju adoptívnu rodinu, hoci ju od nej oddeľuje jej biela koža. Učí sa variť, upratovať a servírovať jedlo v prostredí neviditeľnej sily a lásky svojej novej rodiny. Časom Laviniu prijmú do sveta veľkého domu, kde sa stará o majiteľovu manželku závislú od ópia, a spriatelí sa s jej nebezpečným, no ochranárskym synom. Ocitá sa tak na dvoch stoličkách, ktoré nemôžu byť odlišnejšie. Donútia ju však vybrať si, a tak bojuje s lojálnosťou k obom svetom, pričom na povrch začnú vychádzať kruté pravdy a mnohé životy sa ocitnú v nebezpečenstve.

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