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Book One of the Spinning Jenny series.

“I guess I’ll name you Jenny, something I can say easy. That was my mammy’s name, anyway. Jenny. You be Jenny from now on...”

Cornelius Carson’s mother cautioned him never to own slaves, but in 1830s Louisiana, land and slaves are proof of a man’s worth. At 23 Cornelius is ambitious, and in love. He owns...

Natchez, 1841. As a slave girl, Jenny has always yearned for freedom, but when her master Cornelius Carson abruptly sets her free and hands her a steamboat ticket to free soil in Ohio, she is completely alone, and her future is filled with dangers. Then an old acquaintance, Walker Jackson, persuades her to return with him to Carefree, the...

Natchez, Mississippi. 1843...

At the age of 22, Jenny has lived a lifetime of experiences. She was a child kidnapped into slavery, and then freed. She’s been married and widowed, and she’s become a mother. But when an ambitious sheriff comes after her for an old crime, she flees the safety of her home at the Natchez estate known as Carefree and...

“Child, I don’t have a mistress. I’m from Jamaica, and I’m liberee. I been free for ten years. My master sent me here when I was nineteen years old. “That’s it,” he said. “You go on. You free now.” I been in New Orleans ever since.”

Who is Margot, the mysterious midwife who moved into Jenny’s house in New Orleans, promising to deliver her child?...