Orphaned during the voyage from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia is placed in the kitchen house of a Virginia tobacco plantation, where she forms deep bonds with the enslaved people who raise her and with Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter. Her white skin keeps her set apart even as she becomes part of their daily life.

When Lavinia is gradually accepted into the world of the big house—where the mistress struggles with opium and the master is often absent—she finds herself caught between two very different communities. A breach of the plantation's social rules forces difficult choices and exposes painful truths with far-reaching consequences.

Character-driven and emotionally complex, the novel explores family, power, and belonging in the plantation-era American South. Recommended for readers of historical family sagas and social history.

• Setting: plantation-era American South
• Themes: identity, loyalty, race and power
• Format: hardcover, family saga

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