New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (2010) dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel, one which focuses on the complexity of slavery as it "follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses. Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are regulars at Tawawa House. . They don't bother too much with questions of freedom, though the resort is situated in free territory - but when Mawu comes to the resort and starts talking of running away, things change. To run is to leave behind everything these women value most - friends and families still down South and for some it also means escaping from the emotional and psychological bonds that bind them to their masters." Tawawa House in Ohio operated as a resort before the Civil War - from 1852-1855 - and in 1856 it became the site of the Ohio African University, and in 1863, it became Wilberforce University. 293 pp. ISBN: 978-0061706547.