"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"--The ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's...

Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War.
Orphaned during her passage from Ireland,...

Through a hard turn of events, Reese Thackery has become an indentured servant. When the owner of her contract dies, the bank has rights to her fate. Conner Kingsley, the son of the bank's owner, comes to Tucker Mills to investigate and soon releases Reese from obligation and hires her to keep house for him. Reese is grateful for freedom but unsure of her other feelings for Conner. Yet, as her emotional hurts heal, and her faith blossoms, Reese allows...

After fulfilling ten years of servitude to the malicious Lafayette Breaux, Maria flees to New Orleans. Rescued from rescued from drowning by Hank Shroeder, a Mormon, she joins his group and they grow closer. But the malicious Breaux will stop at nothing to reclaim Maria as his own, and relentlessly tracks her--even as she treks West with her fellow Saints. Will she be able to escape her tormentor and find peace when she reaches her promised land?

Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family.

Phedre no Delaunay escapes from captivity in the hopes of returning to her people to deliver a warning of impending invasion, not realizing she alone holds the power to determine the future of her world.

A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.

While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.

Christopher Thatcher, who saw his sisters successfuly married and now has resolved to avoid women and the complications they often bring to a man's life, meets Marsali Abbott, a young woman with a past even more troubling than his own. Whether from years of habit protecting his sisters, or simply because he feels drawn to Marsali, Christopher chooses to help her and becomes her friend ... and loving protector as they both cross the ocean to America....