Nine historical couples walk the road
to love even as they dare to escape and help others break
free from the injustices of slavery between 1849 and 1860.
From Southern states of Georgia and South Carolina to above
the Mason-Dixon Line in Indiana and Pennsylvania, they work
within the network known as the Underground
Railroad.
Emma Underground by Barbara Tifft
Blakey Follow the Christmas Star by Ramona K.
Cecil Under the Sails of Love by Lynn A.
Coleman The Bakery Bride by Cecelia
Dowdy Place of Refuge by Patty Smith
Hall Free to Love by Terri J. Haynes The
Winter Quilt by Debby Lee The Song of Hearts Set
Free by Darlene Panzera Freedom’s Flight by
Penny Zeller
There is hope for the future when people
come together to fight evil, and when men and women find
love in the midst of great challenges. And through it all,
faith is the key to victory in these stories from nine
inspiring Christian authors.
Emma Underground
by Barbara Tifft Blakey Schenectady, New
York—1851 Emma Trebor desires to reconcile with her
husband, but he is hiding something from her. How could she
know the investigator she hires is secretly a bounty hunter
and her husband is his target?
Follow the
Christmas Star by Ramona K. Cecil Madison,
Indiana—1850 Deeply involved in the abolitionist
movement, Edith Applegate struggles to reconcile her desire
to help bring people out of bondage and her growing
affection for a former Southern slave owner.
Under
the Sails of Love by Lynn A. Coleman Savannah,
Georgia—1860 Charlotte Kimbrel, a Southern Belle, has
been smuggling slaves. Captain Zachery Browne’s ship sails
slaves to freedom. Hostilities between the states are
developing. Will Charlotte successfully travel the
Underground Railroad by sea?
The Bakery Bride
by Cecelia Dowdy Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania—1859 Grieving over her beau’s unjustified
death, Ruth—a recently manumitted slave who is
illiterate—assists her upper-class boss as an abolitionist.
Can she heal from the pain of slavery and learn to love again?