In 1756, in the midst of the Seven Years War, Ayisha fights her solitary battle for freedom. Ayisha is a slave on Martinique, who serves the Master of the plantation. She is also known as Charlotte by the Master's sister, a woman who has whimsically taught her to read aloud in French. But there is nothing whimsical about the cruel, backbreaking life that Ayisha endures on the Caribbean island where fate seems to have imprisoned her forever. In 1755...