Slave catchers, bigots, boozers, and a handful of harlots

Western New York is an historian’s dream. It’s where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer lead Tess Riley through the tangled web of temperance, abolition and women’s rights in A Shocking & Unnatural Incident. It’s where a fierce, light-skinned woman pulls a reluctant Tess into her renegade abolition army in Wixumlee Is My Salvation. But Tess faces her greatest challenge in Stolen, when a heartless human trafficker kidnaps her friends and smuggles them to the brothels of Kentucky to be auctioned as virgins.
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