A Light To My Path

Renowned author Lynn Austin has received three Christy Awards for Historical Fiction¿two for the first books in this Refiner¿s Fire series. Raised on a South Carolina plantation as the house pet of her white master¿s daughter, Kitty never made a decision for herself. Now as a young adult, she must preserve her faith while making the biggest decision ever: stay with her master and go south to avoid the Yankees or run away tonight for the North with Grady, the field slave she has come to love.

¿¿ heart-wrenching descriptions of the indignities of slavery. Highly recommended.¿ ¿Library Journal