The Black Knight's Tune: Ruby's Story (A Slave of the Shadows Novella)

RUBY STEWART is a slave living under the false pretenses of a freed black women 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 One
A Guardian of Slaves: Book Two
Novella: 
The Black Knight's Tune: Novella One
The Master of Ships: Novella Two
The Promise Between Us: Novella Three
The Fair Magnolia: Novella Four (Coming September 2019)

A Whisper of War: Book Three (Coming Late 2020)

Novels can be read alone or with the novella series. Novellas should be read following suggested reading order of the novels.


What Readers Are Saying:

"It never ceases to amaze me how some authors, like Naomi Finley, can write a sensitive, realistic story in only a few pages while others will take twice as many pages to tell a similar story and not touch your heart. What a talent! The Black Knight's Tune: Ruby's Story is one of a series planned by Finley who tells us in her bio that she has "an affinity for the Deep South and its history" and is "fascinated by the resiliency of the human spirit." That resiliency is evident in the female protagonist, Ruby, born to black slave parents but separated from them while still a youngster. Beautifully written, tightly edited, and with plenty of revealing dialogue and reflection, The Black Knight's Tune will resonate in your memory long after you set the book aside. Like that famous song, "Amazing Grace", Naomi Finley has crafted this novella with amazing grace."--Readers' Favorite

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