A novel with many heroines. . .Some are black, some white; some are babies and some grandmothers. What they have in common is Cassidy, a wealthy and merciless plantation owner in the pre-Civil War American South, for whom the black women are slaves and the white women are concubines.Their story is the story of thousands of women of their time and place, until they put their heads and hearts together to plan a daring escape.Guided by streams and mountains,...