Antebellum Struggles: A Story of Love, Lust, Pain & Freedom

"Once I started reading I could not put it down [any] more than I could stop breathing"  ***** AMAZON REVIEWER                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Dickie Erman masterfully switches view point and projects distinct character voices.  There is love against lust, an abolitionist receiving money from a slave owner, and deception for personal gain throughout ... an incredibly graphic detailing of society at a time when power and violence ruled by the crack of a whip" ***** LITERARY TITAN                                                                                                                " ... an eclectic mix of serious historical fiction and emotional melodrama ... a refreshing original take" ***** KIRKUS REVIEWS                                                                                                                 After toiling in the Colonel's sugar cane fields, Amana's brought into his mansion as a house servant for the Colonel and his wife, Collette. Collette's suspicions and jealousies arise, but are tempered from the guilt of her own infidelity. The field slave, Tabari, finally escapes but is hunted by two saddle tramps and the law. Throughout it all, the scalawag Doctor disrupts everyone's lives, managing to line his own pockets all the while. Set in and around New Orleans, this deeply moving tale of scandal, sex, and suspense follows the voyages of these very different characters in the 1850s.

• Keeper of Slaves: Book Two of Antebellum Struggles
• Slaves of Fools: Book Three in the "Antebellum Struggles" Series
• A Guardian of Slaves (A Slave of the Shadows)
• A Slave of the Shadows
• The Black Knight's Tune: Ruby's Story (A Slave of the Shadows Novella)
• The Master of Ships: Charles’s Story (A Slave of the Shadows Novella)
• Charleston's Daughter (The Low Country Series)
• Spinning Jenny: A Novel
• Mustard Seed
• Evermore: A Saga of Slavery and Deliverance (The Plantation Series) (Volume 3)