The Night Before Her Wedding Woman Ordered Her Slave to “Teach”Her What Awaited Her After Marriage
The Night Before Her Wedding Woman Ordered Her Slave to “Teach”Her What Awaited Her After Marriage The night before her wedding, a wealthy plantation heiress made an unthinkable and forbidden request. Terrified of what awaited her in the marital bed, she secretly locked her bedroom door and ordered a young enslaved man to teach her the truth. What started as innocent curiosity quickly ignited a dangerous, life-altering passion that crossed every boundary of 1860s America. Will they survive the devastating consequences of their stolen night? In the sultry, oppressive summer of 1860, beneath the sprawling, moss-draped oaks of Willowbrook Plantation in rural Georgia, the humid air hummed with the distant songs of field hands and the overwhelmingly sweet scent of magnolia in full bloom. The devastating storm of the American Civil War loomed darkly on the national horizon, but for the moment, the grand estate was entirely consumed by the frantic preparations for a joyous, high-society...