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Fourteen years following the end of slavery, Lord Henry Hardin and his wife, Sweetheart Bertha, enjoy an entitled life in Union Region, Arkansas. Until he encounters a devastating truth: Bertha is unable to keep children. If Henry doesn't produce an heir, the American branch of his family name will expire out. So Henry, desperate to protect his aristocratic family lineage, will the unthinkable. When Salome, Henry's colored mistress, gives birth to a white-skinned, blue-eyed little girl, Henry requests a reluctant Sweetheart Bertha to promise the child as their own...allowing young Margaret to go away in to the white world of privilege. As Margaret grows up older, unacquainted with her true parentage, damaging circumstances threaten to shroud her in pain and pity...but then, in the end, in revelation. Despite rumors about Margaret's true personality, Salome is determined to convert her daughter's bitter past into her secure future while Henry would go to extraordinary lengths to protect his legacy. Spanning decades and generations, marked by tragedy and redemption, this unforgettable saga illuminates a family's struggle because of their name, for survival, as well as for true freedom.
