The Voyage of Promise

The Voyage of Promise
Kay Marshall Strom
Paperback, 320 pp., $14.99
Abingdon Press (October 2010)

The Grace in Africa series is a sweeping three-part historical saga of slavery and freedom that takes the reader from an island off the west coast of Africa to Southern plantations and finally on to Canada. In The Voyage of Promise, slavers blast into Grace Winslow’s life with guns blazing, and tear her family apart forever. As she watches her husband led away in chains aboard a ship bound for America, Grace finds herself scared, alone, and at the mercy of lecherous seamen. She passes her time at sea reading the Captain’s Bible and forms a desperate plot to find her husband.