This is a story of Rachel, a slave on a plantation on the island of Barbados who runs away from the plantation a day after the Emancipation Act proclaims the freedom of slaves only the slaves are not freed and instead are told they are apprentices and will continue to work on the plantation for the next six years. It’s a story of Rachel’s journey as she sets out to find the children that were taken from her. Eleanor Shearer’s style of writing pulls you in from the very first page and immerses you in this compelling story of hope, love, family and the brutal reality of this time in Caribbean history.