Kathleen Grissom
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. As time passes she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1873, recently married Crow Mary and Abe Farwell, a white fur trader, witness the Cypress Hills Massacre, in which forty innocent Nakoda are killed by a drunken gang. Following the massacre, Crow Mary rescues five Nakoda women who are being abused by the gang. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in everyone and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point....
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, has a deadly secret that compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. This novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only to discover that his aristocratic lover Caroline is...