Elysium: The Plantation Series Book IV

Lily Palmer slips away with her six-year-old daughter to her uncle's farm in Louisiana, hoping to start over and leave her history behind. Life there is still shaped by the upheaval that followed the Civil War, and Lily must examine her own careless beliefs about race as she comes to value the worth of each person around her, white and Black alike. Her hopeless longing for Alistair Whiteaker, a veteran who is now sickened by his own part in slavery, collides with her buried past and threatens the calm she has built. Meanwhile, Thomas Bickell, once enslaved himself, campaigns for voting rights for Black men while white supremacist groups attack him and those he cares about, and he must win back the woman he loves.