The Candle Star

Runaways hidden in the barn. Slave catchers lodged in the hotel. And Emily caught in the middle. Emily Preston has defied her parents one too many times, and they expel her from their plantation home. Forced to travel to Detroit, she's sentenced to a year's labor in her Uncle Isaac's hotel. In retaliation, Emily has vowed to become the most disagreeable houseguest ever, but she didn't figure in her uncle's iron will. And she has no idea what to do with Malachi Watson, the son of freed slave...