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Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally comes around, instead of the idyllic life she was hoping for with her true love, she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby faces the ultimate sacrifice to protect her heart in this powerful, thrilling story of one slave's fight for freedom.
About the Author
Sadeqa Johnson is the Globe and Mail best-selling author of Yellow Wife, And Then There Was Me, Second House From the Corner and Love in a Carry-on Bag. Her accolades include being the recipient of the National Book Club Award, the Phillis Wheatley Award and the USA Best Book Award for best fiction. She is a Kimbilo Fellow. Originally from Philadelphia, she currently lives near Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and three children. To learn more, visit O Magazine - "27 of 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels That Will Sweep You Away. " "Wholly engrossing, exquisitely researched, so timely and suspenseful, I highly recommend this novel. " ?Kathleen Grissom New York Times Best selling author of Glory Over Everything and The Kitchen House"A fully immersive, intricately crafted story inspired by the pages of history. In Pheby, Sadeqa Johnson has created a woman whose struggle to survive and to protect the ones she loves will have readers turning the pages as fast as their fingers can fly. Simply enthralling. " ? Lisa Wingate, #1New York TimesBestselling Author of Before We Were Yours and The Book of Lost Friends.
