About the Book: In post–Civil War America, siblings June and Coleman, formerly enslaved by the Harper family, embark on a harrowing quest for true freedom. June was taken west to Mexico by their former master; Coleman remains behind in Louisiana until a summons lures him into a perilous desert journey with the Harpers’ daughter Florence. Across shipwrecks, kidnappings and borderlands, the siblings must confront bondage, violence and loss to reclaim their futures.