Slavery of a different kind, beyond physical chains, leads to a different type of escape . . . Three women trapped in the fragile and precarious world between slave and free. Marissa, the lady of a grand plantation. Lolley, a soon-to-be freed young woman, ambitious and jealous of her mistress’s life. And Shelby, the slave of a prosperous free black family who finds herself suddenly caught in the middle of the deception, rivalry, and conspiracy that unfold.