It was a time when men – and women – could be sold as property…Captain Neville Percy is a man grown weary and impatient after years of waiting. He believed a transition to a higher status in life as a slave trader in the Old South was long overdue. And he also longs to take over the station of his boss, Thaddeus Williams.As he covets Williams’ twin daughters, highly prized for their intelligence and beauty, a bloody rivalry develops between him and the African tribal leader in the trading business. He will marry the twins to his nephew prince, but will his plan work?Percy, this ruthless demon of a man, is the catalyst for all the chaos and hardship that is to come in this uniquely told American tale. Readers are sure to be enlightened by the details based on historical fact.As reviewed by Kirkus Discoveries:“Prolific author F. Ephraim (Kelsey’s Quest, 2008, etc.) sets forth a dizzying fictional tale. This Baroque harlequinade—featuring uppity slave traders, tribal warfare and polyamorous miscegenation—braves the high seas between Charles Town, S.C., and tribal Africa circa 1735. The author largely avoids the Roots trap by making his novel less weighty and more adventuresome plotwise than Alex Haley’s 1976 family epic. In Ephraim’s tabloidized history lesson, finely wrought characterization and ruminative prose in a lucid, contemporary voice never block the action … A bloody rivalry ensues as do, after much to-ing and fro-ing, redemption and a nicely ambiguous ending … Ultimately, Ephraim’s well-developed storytelling is good fun…”
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