Fox Creek

<p><strong><em>The year is 1843 when six-year-old Monette the pampered and beloved daughter of a French Creole sugar planter is taken to New Orleans and sold into slavery. </em></strong>Sold along with her is Cyrus a boy big for his age torn from his mother without a chance to say goodbye.</p><p></p><p>Together they go to Fox Creek Plantation in English Louisiana home to the Jensey family. While Cyrus is sent to the fields Monette becomes the childhood playmate of Kate the planter's daughter and catches the eye of Breck the planter's son. It's easier and safer for Monette to pretend life is normal. That she belongs. To forget her past even to forget Cyrus whom she'd loved. But as the years pass it becomes clear that children of color do not belong in the world of the white elite-at least not as equals. The brutality and powerlessness of slavery begin to take their toll upon Monette.</p><p></p><p><em>Who is she now? Who will protect her? And who is that big boy from the fields who keeps pestering her?</em></p><p></p><p><em>Fox Creek </em>is a powerful novel set during one of the most turbulent times in American history. It is a story of race privilege the battle of wills and the denial of freedom. But most of all it is a story of love a love that transcends all that threatens to tear it apart.</p>