About the Book: Sweetness Of Water
Landry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the
American Civil War draws to its bitter close. Cast into the world without a
penny to their names, their only hope is to find work in a society that still
views them with nothing but intolerance.
Farmer George Walker and his wife Isabelle are reeling from a loss that has
shaken them to their core. After a chance encounter, they agree to employ the
brothers on their land, and slowly the tentative bonds of trust begin to blossom
between the strangers.
But this sanctuary survives on a knifes