Borrowed Time (Paperback)

From Best Selling author Donna Michele Ramos, author of HIGH RISE (#10 on Essence.com and #5 on BlackBookPlus.com Best Seller Lists), comes a new multi-cultural novel of an all consuming, ultimate love triangle, set in the complex world of the Civil War where all three characters are living on BORROWED TIME. The danger of war, hardships of slavery and ecstacy of love are all totally experienced by you as you read. Smiling Fawn Eagle, daughter of a Blackfoot Warrior and free woman of color from a Caribbean island. Fawn is captured twice, ripped from her family and made a slave on the Lakeland Plantation, with no hope of escape. Cortlandt Kelley, Union Army Captain, one of New York's richest and most eligible bachelors, is wounded in an ambush, found and nursed back to health by Fawn. Jim Lakeland, Yankee-hating, hedonistic plantation master, obsessed with bedding and totally possessing Fawn. Civil War: 1 gorgeous teensage slave girl, 1 handsome, ethical Union Army Captain and 1 dangerously obsessed slave master. 1+1+1 = 3 not 2. Shake well, get caught up in their explosion. in a love triangle, there's always a clash, one winner and one clear loser... Discover a previously unwritten about, real African American character that played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Special Bonus: Prologue of book is a mini-book about Fawn's parents' adventurous love story.