The Daughter of Union County: A Novel

A mothers devotion. A daughters search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the postCivil War South.

In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled parents in the finest house in Arkansas. Unknown to the light-skinned, blue-eyed girl, shes been born into a secret. Though her fathera man desperate to produce an heiris white, Margarets real mother, a woman named Salome, is black. As the years go by, Margarets hidden history allows her to pass into a world of privilege. When the truth of her ancestry is revealed, she is confronted by a father wholl risk anything to protect his legacy and embraced by Salome, who is determined to reclaim the child she loves. Its a pivotal point for Margaretas well as for the generations that will follow.

Spanning decades, this unforgettable saga illuminates the empowering struggle of race and reinvention, of loyalty and family, and of finding your identity and the true freedom that comes with it.