“The maven of alternate history” (San Diego Union-Tribune) continues his epic tale of Atlantis.
Frederick
Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis’s first
settlement, and his grandfather Victor led the army against England to
win the nation’s independence. But he is also a black slave, unable to
prove his lineage, and forced to labor on a cotton plantation in the
southern region of the country.
Frederick feels the color of
his skin shouldn’t keep him from having the same freedoms his ancestors
fought and died for. So he becomes the leader of a revolutionary army
of slaves determined to free all of his brethren across Atlantis...