Carol Bennister, a nineteen-years-old black American girl,who grew up in the coal mining colonies of the blue mountain valley of Kentucky.With a burning desire to devour as many books as she could lay her hands on & the dream of one day becomingĀ a published author herself,an unexpected opportunity sets Carol off on an adventure that would take her though both the brightest & darkest periods of her life.
Set in nineteenth century America,on the onset of the American Civil War,young miss Bennisterās fate tears her away from her family to a wonderful new life..but evil lurks just behind that facade-an evil that threatens her very life.
