We Are Not Our Own
Ada Baillie is a plantation heiress sold off in marriage to Nicholas and forced to settle in London with her new husband. He is banking on the huge Slave Compensation Act pay out she will inherit to clear his debts. He has allowed her to bring her half-sister Anna with her as a companion and Anna’s mother, former enslaved woman Eliza and Becky, Anna’s sister, to work in his household. When Nicholas is found dead, Ada must go on the run with her prostitute lover Ladli while her sisters work to...