When Leslie Nichols returns to North Carolina after a thirty-year absence to claim the the tobacco farm left to her by her estranged grandmother Maggie, she's planning to be rid it as soon as possible, even though Peak Plantation has been in her family for generations. Leslie hopes that sundering ties with the farm will also let her separate herself from her disturbing memories of her mother's death, her father's disgrace, and her unhappy childhood....

In 1853 at Pepperwick, the largest rice plantation in South Carolina, all of the slaves, field hands and house servants, are called out to watch. Storyteller Old George, whose tales remind them of their lives before captivity, is caged and buried in wood chips up to his neck. Fifteen-year-old Mozay, the educated slave companion and servant to Clarence Little, the rice planter's son, stands with the other boys. With only a look from Old George, Mozay...

Intriqued by the stories in her ancestors' diaries about Puerto Rico, Ana Cubillas was determined to go there. When she meets twin brothers Ramon and Inocente, she marries Ramon and convinces them both that their destinies are on the sugar plantation they've inherited in Puerto Rico. When tragedy and hardships befall her, she's determined to hold on to the land that has become her home.

Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history.

Sitting in a jail cell on the eve of his hanging, April 1, 1875, freedman Persimmon “Persy” Wilson wants nothing more than to leave some record of the truth-his truth. He may be guilty, but not of what he stands accused: the kidnapping and rape of his former master's wife. In 1860, Persy had been sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a striking, light-skinned house slave named Chloe. Their deep and instant connection fueled...

"1914, Fiji: 25-year-old police sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise. After a promising start to his career in his native India and in Hong Kong, he got sent to work in Fiji as punishment for a professional mistake he's too embarrassed to talk about. Lonely and humiliated, Akal longs for the day he can finally solve a big case and win the inspector-general's favor, thereby redeeming himself and being permitted to...

"Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun is a captivating World War II historical love story set against the raw beauty of Australia. Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a life change when she reads the want ad in the newspaper for a companion needed to escort a young orphaned child to Australia. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement--the war, those treacherous winter seas, her family, her fiance...but she can't help herself....

A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners. On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys--as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself--have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a "stockman"...

"Something is out there ... watching ... waiting It could be a mythical creature wreaking havoc on a Mystere hotel ... or a malicious vandal. It's detective Tanner LeDoux's first case and--much to his chagrin--the hotel belongs to Josie Bettencourt, once the most popular girl in town and his unrequited love. A woman who now doesn't even recognize him. Josie's poor memory is Tanner's luck, however. He has a chance to be the strong, sexy hero who protects...