Yellow Wife

US: Simon & Schuster, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. ?gA fully immersive, intricately crafted story inspired by the pages of his tory. In Pheby, Sadeqa Johnson has created a woman whose struggle to surviv e and to protect the ones she loves will have readers turning the pages as fast as their fingers can fly. Simply enthralling.?h -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Called "wholly engrossing" by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Gr issom, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has liv ed a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother?fs position as the e state?fs medicine woman and cherished by the Master?fs sister, she is set a part from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She?fd been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil?fs Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer?fs cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.