The Road From Chapel Hill

Eugenia Mae Spotswood is the grown daughter of a family that has lost its standing, and she is determined to win back the comfortable life she once knew. Tom, an enslaved man, wants only one thing: to be free. After he becomes Eugenia Mae's property, an unsettling closeness develops between them, but Tom comes to understand that liberty cannot be handed over by someone else; he must claim it himself. Meanwhile Clyde Bricket, a farm boy whose actions led to Tom's capture, has been raised to believe in the Southern cause. When he begins to doubt that belief, he discovers that making amends may mean turning against everything he was taught to defend.