Genre: Historical Fiction
Length: 288 pages
First Published: 2021
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Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.
She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.
About Sadeqa Johnson
Sadeqa Johnson an author whose works include The House of Eve, And Then There Was Me, Second House from the Corner, Love in a Carry On Bag, and Yellow Wife. Originally from Philadelphia, she currently lives near Richmond, Virginia. Visit the author’s website →
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