ISBN-13: 9780615453071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 772 str.
The Atlanta Buckhead roads are worn trails of dirt. As one enters an established home with walnut hardwoods greeted by a black mamme named Bessy with bewitching eyes and youthful radiance, one realizes that the year is sometime before the ravaging civil war blazed through the south. The front door shuts behind the reader as the author leads you through her father Morgan's Buckhead mansion he built. Bessy would gather with other slaves behind the ol' barn in the wee hours of the full moon. Not able to sleep, Lilly would follow the sounds of the chanting and parading fire to find the house servants in a trance stomping on the weeds outlining a path in the backyard. Mystified at the practice of voodoo rituals carried on by Bessy, the black mamme. Lilly speaks up the next morning as Bessy prepared breakfast. Learning Bessy had used the seven jars of sea water to cast a powerful voodoo spell on Lilly and America. Lilly dies in the south after a slip and fall from a magnolia tree. Lilly leads the reader through to the afterlife. It would be many years later that Lilly becomes Lori in a new lifetime as a baby brought to America on a cruise ship as a stolen child brought to the Dutch Caribbean Islands. The young Lori would learn of life living within her captured existence in America's human trafficking world and the powerful elite that control her slave existence. As an adult Lori learns that her only power left is writing the truth on paper of all she remembers, including her experiences the CIA does not want told. Lori begins to breakthrough to freedom, only to learn how the CIA is an octopus with tentacles on just about everything breathing.