Drama, passion, and obsession on an 1830s tobacco plantation. The legacy begins with the death of a powerful patriarch who leaves a legacy of lies and misdeeds that will eventually destroy his family. Love motivated the lie and obsession created the dangerous love triangle that would change lives forever. This is an American story which moves from the bigotry of class separation in old Philadelphia society to the violent dogma of a southern tobacco plantation.
The three Vance women are bound together by shared loss. They must learn to lean on each other as they attempt to survive life after David Vance.
While Lillian is blessed to find the first friendship she has ever known and Beth embarks on a promising romance, Rebecca is deluded into thinking that with her light complexion, long hair and green eyes, she can shed her Negro heritage. It is a delusion that will put her life in jeopardy.
The Bowman Legacy is a novel of love and war. Lillian Vance is now Lillian Bissett. She and her husband Louis, her friend Althea, along with three freed slaves from the Gloria Plantation move to Timbuctoo, an all black town in Burlington County, New Jersey. Soon after Lillian and her family settle into their new community, they learn that the town is a stop on the Underground Railroad. The family willingly become active in the movement to abolish slavery.
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