This historical novel includes adventure and romantic triangle between a Colonial planter's daughter Kathryn and two suitors, Martin a Patriot and Loyalist Brent during the American War for Independence. Other characters include a dynamic multiracial girl, Sky, who is so poor she has no last name. Sky is orphaned when drunken seamen slaughter her mother and father, owner of a liquor still and pimp for her mother. She is left with only the clothes on her back and her grandmother's black voodoo teachings. She survives by murder and selling herself into slavery. Although love eludes her she...