Where the River Sets Us Free: A Journey from Bondage to Freedom in Civil War America

In 1863 Mississippi, the love between house slave Naomi Bell and plantation carpenter Isaiah Turner has been growing in secret for fifteen years—nurtured through stolen reading lessons by a hidden creek and sustained by dreams of a future neither dares speak aloud. But when their mistress discovers Naomi's dangerous literacy and threatens forced breeding arrangements, their carefully guarded love becomes the catalyst for the most perilous decision of their lives.

The Underground Railroad cal...