Author(s): Michael White

World fiction

Augustus Cain is a war-scarred wanderer with an uncanny, if unwelcome, ability to track the most elusive runaway slaves. To repay a debt and keep his horse, which he carelessly gambled away, he must head north from Virginia and retrieve a runaway named Rosetta. In the tradition of Cold Mountain comes this bold, exquisitely written and profoundly moving epic of a slave catcher and a young women on the run on the eve of the Civil War. Backed by a 'Reader's Guarantee'.