About This Book
FROM THE AUTHOR OF PROMISE BRIDGE COMES A POWERFUL NOVEL SET IN THE PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA....
"Jacy Lane, you are nothing more than a foolish quarter moon," my mother told me. Much like the sliver of a quarter moon, I was a fragment of what she expected me to be.
1839, North Carolina. As the daughter of a plantation owner, Jacy has been raised in a privileged world. But when her father suddenly dies, her cold, unfeeling mother, Claudia, schemes to marry Jacy off to a well-positioned but lecherous suitor. In a fit of fury over Jacy's protests, Claudia calls her "a foolish, infernal quadroon"—and reveals that Jacy is the offspring of a dalliance between her father and a slave. Finally Jacy understands the true meaning of "quarter moon."
This devastating revelation utterly destroys Jacy's sense of who she is and where she belongs in the world. If her secret is revealed, she'll be cast out of white society. But how can she embrace a race she has been taught is inferior? Equally shocking, her biological mother and brother are still slaves on the property. As she tentatively gets to know them—and the handsome horse trainer Rafe—and feels the warmth of their affection, she begins to see life in the South with fresh eyes. And when Claudia threatens to sell Jacy's new family, Jacy makes a decision that will take her on a treacherous journey. With the North Star as her guide, she heads toward freedom...and a brand-new, once unimaginable understanding of who she is and where her future lies.
