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 Freedomβs 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 Yorkβ1851 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, Indianaβ1850 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, Georgiaβ1860 Charlotte Kimbrel, a Southern Belle, has been smuggling slaves. Captain Zachery Browneβs 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, Pennsylvaniaβ1859 Grieving over her beauβs unjustified death, Ruthβa recently manumitted slave who is illiterateβassists her upper-class boss as an abolitionist. Can she heal from the pain of slavery and learn to love again?
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