Olivia was a seventeen-year-old young woman in 1841. Her childhood friend, Mourning Free, knows how to run a farm, and she trusts him implicitly. But he is the son of fugitive slaves, and he is afraid of traveling and working with a white woman. He is also afraid of slave catchers roaming the free states looking for fugitive slaves.
Olivia is determined to claim the 80 acres of land her father left her on in faraway Michigan. As she says, “I am as sprung off him as Avis is or Tobey is.”
They set off together, and everything went smoothly, despite the daily grind of surviving in a log cabin.
She thinks her biggest issue is her long-term crush on their young, unmarried neighbor.
But then her world unravels.
Her strength, vulnerability, and compassion propel her on a journey of self-discovery and self-discovery to find the right thing to do in a world of so much wrongness.
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