Shanghaied Heart

Rachael, at fifteen, needs a good husband--in the worst possible way. Catholic and the lone Black teenager living on the fringes of a 1960s Pacific Northwest farming community, she is pregnant from a violent rape. As her only hope to protect her father, her unborn child, and herself from the rapist's retaliatory death threats, she maneuvers an unwilling fellow student into a shotgun marriage to disguise the source of her pregnancy. But marriage to a White boy during this era highlighted by the US Civil Rights Movement carries its own share of challenges, which she and her conscripted husband struggle to overcome. Will this tenuous marriage develop the strength to rescue Rachael and her daughter when the rapist returns with revenge and murder on his mind Or will her shanghaied White husband abandon her in the face of death