African American & Multicultural
She'd been promised freedom on her 18th birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry. She finds herself thrust into slavery at the infamous Devil's Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, & sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer's cruelty but also to his contradictions. Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.
