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The soulful town of Memphis holds a secret.Nat Raskin has the perfect life working for Sotheby's in New York-until her marriage falls apart and she limps home to Memphis. Badly on the rebound, she opens an antique shop in the building her family has owned for generations, making her grandfather's store a Memphis landmark.She starts her business with the help of Gideon Fairchild, handsome and damaged, a failed musician, now an antique dealer with a past shut up as tight as a vault.When Gideon finds a red Fender Stratocaster in a customer's living room, he asks Nat for help in researching its ownership. Her search leads her to her grandfather, and to she begins to realize that things are not as they seem in the Raskin family.The story of a forty-year-old shooting involving Mo Raskin leaves Nat with some startling questions about her past-and she takes a journey through still-racist Memphis in search of answers.Her search exposes a web of lies that are decades old. Will the secret of the Stratocaster reveal the secret of her grandfather's? And can she reveal it without tearing the Raskin family apart?

When Nat Raskin takes on what seems to be an easy estate appraisal for a wealthy Memphis family, she never expects to unearth a valuable set of eleven antique chairs. And she certainly doesn't expect to get caught in a conflict between two families, one wealthy and white, the other poor and Black, over the ownership of the missing twelfth chair.Meanwhile, Nat's high school sweetheart has returned to Memphis, after getting divorced and losing his job as a lawyer for Warner Music in Nashville. The spark reignites instantaneously between them, but with both on unsteady footing, Nat may be in for more than she bargained for.Who owns the twelfth chair-and how far is that family willing to go to claim it? And when the spark of romance bursts into flame, who will get burned?

Enslaved in Georgia, Pen and Jonas have loved each other since they were children. When they marry, they fear it won't last. They're right. On the eve of the Civil War, their master sells Jonas away to Mississippi. In 1863, when Pen hears of the Emancipation Proclamation, she takes it to heart. She resolves to find the husband she can't forget. She escapes without a certain destination, without a guide, and without a dime in her pocket. As a runaway, she walks into a world of danger from slave catchers, Confederate deserters, and renegade Union soldiers. In Mississippi, the Confederate army forces Jonas into service to build fortifications for the city of Vicksburg. Hating the Confederacy, yearning for Pen, he knows he's on the wrong side of the war. When General Grant's army besieges the city, Jonas comes under dangerous fire-but in the Union bombardment, he hears the siren song of freedom. Will their love triumph, or will death and distance part them forever?

One woman abhors her past. The other fights for freedom. Will their battle for emancipation leave them casualties of war? South Carolina, 1862. Emily Jarvie is determined to send her family's slave-owning history to its grave. When the Union Army captures the Sea Islands, she returns to the south to teach the former slaves, part of the Army's unusual experiment in racial equality. Despite her loyalty to the Union cause, her Southern heritage raises a brick wall of Yankee suspicion. Oberlin College, Ohio. Fugitive slave Caro Jarvie longs to pick up a rifle to fight for freedom. But as a woman, she has to settle for reporting on the war second-hand from the Union Army camp in the Sea Islands. When she learns that Harriet Tubman is in South Carolina to lead a military mission to free slaves, Caro seizes her chance to enter the fray. As Emily and Caro struggle to bury the past, old loves and new flames open a door to the future they both hope for. But with the war for America's soul raging ever closer, each woman finds her strength tested as she strives for a better tomorrow. Can they forge a legacy of love and acceptance during a time of turmoil and death?

Revised edition: Previously published as Slave and Sister, this edition of Sister of Mine: A Novel includes editorial revisions.