All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master...

In a continuation of the erotic Sleeping Beauty trilogy, Beauty and her husband, Laurent, return to the kingdom of Bellavalten as the new king and queen twenty years after they were forced to leave.

Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of the sugar plantation's owners. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist. When a man is killed one fateful night, Wilde must choose between family ties and young Washington's life. This is a novel of fraught bonds and betrayal. What brings Wilde and Washington together ultimately...

"A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate"--Publisher.

"Ailsa Connery has waited three long years to finally escape her enslavement at Stirling Castle and reunite with her clan. But her carefully laid plans are completely destroyed by the arrival of the infamous Highland warrior known as Dubh Mahoun, the Black Devil... who has plans of his own. Kallum MacNeill's fearsome reputation has long allowed him to keep hidden his secret double life of freeing enslaved captives across the land. It's only when he...

In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker father and widower, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life. When Daniel suddenly trades a horse for a young slave, Onesimus, it begins a struggle in his conscience that will taint his life forever and sets in motion a chain of events that leads to two murders and the family's strange relationship with a runaway slave named Bett.

The enslaved Arkady despairs of ever seeing her husband alive again and risks everything to learn the truth about her new owner; while Stellan, in asylum in Caelum, gains the support of the returning Tide Lords.

"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign...

"Based on the true story of Henry "Box" Brown's amazing escape from slavery, a gripping tale about the lengths to which people will go in seeking freedom brings to light one of the heroes of the Underground Railroad."-- Provided by publisher.

As the deeply moving and troubling account of a family's breakdown, this is the perfect companion to Linda Spalding's bestselling, award-winning novel "The Purchase." It's spring of 1855, when John Dickinson is involved in a shameful secret that will require a tragic decision. The family's resources have been wasted by a reckless brother, and, adding fuel to John's desperation, the enslaved workers have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist who...