The World We Left Behind

<p>At Rutherford Rocks Plantation deep wounds grow under the rule of rich Alabama landowners. After John Brower secretly fathers a child with Hazel an enslaved woman his wife Catherine's rage leads her down a brutal and bitter path. She gains a dark reputation as one of the cruelest slaveholders-until an unexpected love shakes her world. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile Catherine's sister Sarah Ann turns against her upbringing to become an abolitionist changing the lives of Aunt Sarah a former cook and her children. </p><p></p><p><em>The World We Left Behind</em> a historical fiction novel is a saga about betrayal survival hope and the tangled legacies of a plantation haunted by its past. This is the first book in the Black Water Cove series.</p>