Bøker av Naomi Finley

An abolitionist slave mistress. Her country divided and on the brink of war. An assailant calculating his revenge. Tensions sweep the nation during the years preceding the American Civil War. Willow and Bowden struggle with life in Charleston while maintaining Livingston Plantation-a station for the Underground Railroad. Bound by the law, the abolitionists are torn between their love for the South and their convictions.Fear of what the war will bring permeates both North and South. Friendships and beliefs are tested. Willow faces the changes at home and the circumstances transforming the country with apprehension, and her memories of the madman who sought her demise fade. As the first shots are fired on Fort Sumter, the nation descends into chaos. Can Willow and the folks of Livingston persevere, or will all she loves vanish before her eyes?Finley's Whispers of War is the third book in The Livingston Legacy series. A story filled to the brim with devotion, courage, and perseverance during an era of turmoil and revolution.

1870.The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington's troubles go much deeper than the world's inequality, and they occur closer to home.One of five sisters in an affluent Manhattan family, Kat is a passionate young artist who yearns for adventure and a world where women have more freedom. While the women in her life seek suitors and dream of managing their own households, acquiring a husband is the least of her concerns.Their mother died while the country was in the middle of a civil war, and their father had returned to quickly marry a woman people knew little about before returning to the battlefield. Driven by her own mission, the Darlington sisters' new stepmother wreaked havoc on the household, and made life miserable for Kat in particular.Now older, Kat sets out to discover the truth behind the mysterious woman and her disappearances. Her stepmother threatens to use Kat's longtime friendship with Jude Williams, a student in his last year of law school and the son of a Southern white woman and a Black doctor in an era where one drop of Black blood has to be recorded on the census, to ruin her reputation and destroy Jude's future. While Kat is worried about protecting her childhood friend, Jude's feelings for the spirited Kat Darlington go much deeper than friendship.As Kat defies all to save her family from her stepmother and claim her independence, she enters a business arrangement with well-respected investor and businessman Merritt Huntington. He is drawn to Kat's frankness and free spirit, but she doesn't seek to be claimed by any gentleman. New York society is filled with whispers of scandal. Can Kat save the Darlingtons from ruin and put speculations to rest, or will she, too, become embroiled in scandal?If This Is Love is the first book in the charming and heartwarming Darlington historical romance series.

A thirst for death. His master's desire to save him. A young girl's mission to heal his shattered spirit.Years have passed since Jimmy and his daughter Magnolia were sold to owners in different states. Broken and beyond hope, a last attempt to end his suffering earned him a night in the pit. Now his owner is eager to be rid of this troublesome slave before he loses the money he paid. He takes Jimmy to town to be sold and they meet slave owner and reformed abolitionist Charles Hendricks along the road. Charles can see Jimmy is a lost soul--a mere reflection of the man he once was because of his painful existence, so he asks to purchase the slave and offers Jimmy a special proposition.Once Jimmy is at Livingston Plantation, his new masa's daughter stirs up memories of the past he wants to forget. Will Jimmy finally give in to his growing anguish and end it all? Or will the gentle soul of this child give him enough purpose to persevere?Reading Order for Series: Novels:A Slave of the Shadows: Book OneA Guardian of Slaves: Book TwoNovellas: The Black Knight's Tune: Novella OneThe Master of Ships: Novella TwoThe Promise Between Us: Novella ThreeThe Fair Magnolia: Novella FourNovel:A Whisper of War: Book Three (Coming Soon)Novels can be read alone or with the novella series. The author's shorter works are best read in the suggested order.

Henrietta and her daughter Mary Grace are sold and taken to Charleston, South Carolina to be auctioned. Separated from her husband, Henrietta now faces an uncertain future and the possibility of becoming estranged from her child. Luckily, fortune shifts in her favor when Olivia Hendricks--the wife of a wealthy planter--purchases her as a nursemaid for their unborn infant.During her years at Livingston Plantation, Henrietta finds sanctuary and safety in the big house, eventually becoming a caregiver to both Mrs. Hendricks and her child. However, this all changes when the missus ends up dead and the master involves Henrietta in a ruse to cover up his wife's murder.Now Henrietta is vulnerable without protection from the lady of the estate, and she is left with no choice but to take action. Chained together by secrets, slave and master must fight to maintain all they hold dear. But how far will Henrietta be forced to go, and what consequences will ultimately be paid to save her daughter and herself? Reading Order for Series: Novels:A Slave of the Shadows: Book OneA Guardian of Slaves: Book TwoNovellas: The Black Knight's Tune: Novella OneThe Master of Ships: Novella TwoThe Promise Between Us: Novella ThreeThe Fair Magnolia: Novella FourNovel:A Whisper of War: Book Three (Coming Soon)Novels can be read alone or with the novella series. The author's shorter works are best read in the suggested order.

CHARLES HENDRICKS flees to London after his wife gives birth to a child belonging to his younger brother. Devastated, he numbs the pain with drink. Leaving a tavern one night he stumbles upon a cloaked female figure lying in a dark alley. Charles helps the stranger, unaware the chance encounter would eventually alter his life forever when hidden secrets and feelings are revealed. A few years later, he returns to London to search for this woman with the goal of setting right his wrongs of the past. Imprisoned by fear, will unraveled secrets change everything for Charles after he finds her? ISABELLA became smitten with the handsome but troubled businessman from America who rescued her. He fled just as their flourishing friendship turned passionate. When the apprenticeship system is abolished, Isabella has no choice but to create another life for herself. She disappears without a hint of her whereabouts, carrying a secret with the potential to ruin everything Charles holds dear. Time passes when an innocent outing finds Isabella reliving emotions of love and abandonment she thought were buried. Can she still find the peace and safety she so desires? Or will fate continue to unleash a life of inescapable affliction? Reading Order for Series: Novels:A Slave of the Shadows: Book OneA Guardian of Slaves: Book TwoNovellas: The Black Knight's Tune: Novella OneThe Master of Ships: Novella TwoThe Promise Between Us: Novella ThreeThe Fair Magnolia: Novella FourNovel:A Whisper of War: Book Three (Coming Soon) Novels can be read alone or with the novella series. The author's shorter works are best read in the suggested order.

In 1850 Charleston, South Carolina, brutality and cruelty simmer just under the genteel surface of Southern society. Beautiful and headstrong Willow Hendricks lives in an era where ladies are considered nothing more than property.Her father rules her life, filling it with turmoil, secrets, and lies. She finds a kindred spirit in spunky, outspoken Whitney Barry, a northerner from Boston. Together these Charleston belles are driven to take control of their own lives as they are plunged into fear and chaos on their quest to fight for the rights of slaves. Against all odds, these feisty women fight to secure freedom and equality for those made powerless and persecuted by a supposedly superior race.Only when they've lost it all do they find a new beginning.Book 1 presents Willow and Whitney--and the reader--with the hardships the slaves endure at the hands of their white masters.Reading Order for Series: Novels:A Slave of the Shadows: Book OneA Guardian of Slaves: Book TwoNovellas: The Black Knight's Tune: Novella OneThe Master of Ships: Novella TwoThe Promise Between Us: Novella ThreeThe Fair Magnolia: Novella FourNovel:A Whisper of War: Book Three (Coming Soon) Novels can be read alone or with the novella series. The author's shorter works are best read in the suggested order.

RUBY STEWART is a slave living under the false pretenses of a freed black woman in New York in 1853. She abides in turmoil longing to know where she came from. This unrest has caused her to be plagued by dreams and visions of a man she calls the Black Knight and a woman with haunting green eyes. Ruby's only recollection of her past is the name Mag, until she receives a letter from friend Willow Hendricks in the South describing a slave girl that passed through her family's plantation over twenty years ago. Does Ruby dare hope this slave child might be her? Meanwhile her job as a journalist at the Manhattan Observer--a penny newspaper--has Ruby fighting feelings for boss and friend Kipling Reed. She struggles with the impossibility of a relationship between a woman of color and a white man. But her skin color isn't the only hindrance standing in the way of this romance. The unavailable Willow Hendricks has won the eye of Kipling. Torn by her feelings of a love that can never be, will Ruby be able to put the questions of her past to rest?Reading Order for Series: Novels:A Slave of the Shadows: Book OneA Guardian of Slaves: Book TwoNovellas: The Black Knight's Tune: Novella OneThe Master of Ships: Novella TwoThe Promise Between Us: Novella ThreeThe Fair Magnolia: Novella FourNovel:A Whisper of War: Book Three (Coming Soon) Novels can be read alone or with the novella series. The author's shorter works are best read in the suggested order.