All We Were Promised

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape,in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia. The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Togetherthey will risk everything for one another in this ΓÇ£beguiling story of friendshipdeceptionand women crossing boundaries in the name of freedomΓÇ¥ (Lisa Wingate#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends). Philadelphia1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down SouthsheΓÇÖd expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After allPhiladelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American liberty. InsteadsheΓÇÖs locked away playing servant to her white-passing fatheras they both attempt to hide their identities from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives. Longing to break awayCharlotte befriends Nella budding abolitionist from one of PhiladelphiaΓÇÖs wealthiest Black families. Just as Charlotte starts to envision a futurea familiar face from her past reappears: Evieher friend from White Oakshas been brought to the city by the plantation mistressand sheΓÇÖs desperate to escape. But as Charlotte and Nell conspire to rescue herin a city engulfed by race riots and attacks on abolitioniststhey soon discover that fighting for EvieΓÇÖs freedom may cost them their own.