Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company’s outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants—boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London—must work the tobacco...

Is Reconstruction healing America, or are dark clouds sending a warning? Carrie struggles to start a new practice in Richmond as tragedy changes her life dramatically. Janie welcomes new life into the world. Rose and Moses almost lose what they hold most precious and then face new violence on the plantation as anger and frustration boil over. Salvation comes from an unexpected source. Florence Robinson, on the verge of joining the Richmond medical...