All We Were Promised
A Novel
Ashton Lattimore
- 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—“a
- gripping
- novel
- about
- standing
- up
- to
- impossible
- odds”
- (People,
- Best
- New
- Books)The
- rebel
- .
- .
- .
- the
- socialite
- .
- .
- .
- and
- the
- fugitive.
- Together,
- they
- will
- risk
- everything
- for
- one
- another
- in
- this
- “beguiling
- story
- of
- friendship,
- deception,
- and
- women
- crossing
- boundaries
- in
- the
- name
- of
- freedom”
- (Lisa
- Wingate,
- #1
- New
- York
- Times
- bestselling
- author
- of
- The
- Book
- of
- Lost
- Friends).BOOK
- OF
- THE
- MONTH
- CLUB
- PICK
- •
- ONE
- OF
- THE
- BEST
- BOOKS
- OF
- THE
- YEAR:
- The
- Washington
- Post,
- NPR,
- She
- ReadsPhiladelphia,
- 1837.
- After
- Charlotte
- escaped
- from
- the
- crumbling
- White
- Oaks
- plantation
- down
- South,
- she’d
- expected
- freedom
- to
- feel
- different
- from
- her
- former
- life
- as
- an
- enslaved
- housemaid.
- After
- all,
- Philadelphia
- is
- supposed
- to
- be
- the
- birthplace
- of
- American
- liberty.
- Instead,
- she’s
- locked
- away
- playing
- servant
- to
- her
- white-passing
- father,
- as
- they
- both
- attempt
- to
- hide
- their
- identities
- from
- slavecatchers
- who
- would
- destroy
- their
- new
- lives.Longing
- to
- break
- away,
- Charlotte
- befriends
- Nell,
- a
- budding
- abolitionist
- from
- one
- of
- Philadelphia’s
- wealthiest
- Black
- families.
- Just
- as
- Charlotte
- starts
- to
- envision
- a
- future,
- a
- familiar
- face
- from
- her
- past
- reappears:
- Evie,
- her
- friend
- from
- White
- Oaks,
- has
- been
- brought
- to
- the
- city
- by
- the
- plantation
- mistress,
- and
- she’s
- desperate
- to
- escape.
- But
- as
- Charlotte
- and
- Nell
- conspire
- to
- rescue
- her,
- in
- a
- city
- engulfed
- by
- race
- riots
- and
- attacks
- on
- abolitionists,
- they
- soon
- discover
- that
- fighting
- for
- Evie’s
- freedom
- may
- cost
- them
- their own.
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