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Novel by HSFF Resident Artist Mary Dezember
In a hostile land, a young woman stands against enslavers and learns—survival isn't freedom.
Secrets about her ancestry lead Twilight Adams to a plantation, where captivity lies in wait. Children held in bondage there have secrets, too. In stealthy resistance, these quiet fighters defy their enslavers, whom they call the destroyers.
As Twilight challenges slavery and the cruel injustice of plantation life, the destroyers close in. Trapped, she discovers what the children know:
There are only two ways out—escape or death.
Spanning three years, 1858 to 1861, Wild Conviction is a socially conscious, richly historical, epic adventure—sprinkled with magical realism, laced with southern gothic, and steeped in the heated tensions of antebellum America.
For this novel, the author created a scenario within a historical setting in which the terms Rich-tone and Pale are used for skin tone—and without historical and contemporary derogatory terms.
Novel by HSFF Resident Artist Mary Dezember
In a hostile land, a young woman stands against enslavers and learns—survival isn't freedom.
Secrets about her ancestry lead Twilight Adams to a plantation, where captivity lies in wait. Children held in bondage there have secrets, too. In stealthy resistance, these quiet fighters defy their enslavers, whom they call the destroyers.
As Twilight challenges slavery and the cruel injustice of plantation life, the destroyers close in. Trapped, she discovers what the children know:
There are only two ways out—escape or death.
Spanning three years, 1858 to 1861, Wild Conviction is a socially conscious, richly historical, epic adventure—sprinkled with magical realism, laced with southern gothic, and steeped in the heated tensions of antebellum America.
For this novel, the author created a scenario within a historical setting in which the terms Rich-tone and Pale are used for skin tone—and without historical and contemporary derogatory terms.