Shores of Promise (Heartsong Presents)

is the twentieth book of the Heartsong Presents line. It was published while Heartsong Presents was owned by Barbour Publishing, Inc.
==Book Description==
Will Sarah at last find freedom on these shores of promise? — Emigrating to the United States from England in 1840, Sarah Brown is full of optimism. The illiterate servant girl is sure she will find a better life than the one she had known as a near slave in Mrs. Gerty's household. — But that is before her new employers are killed, and before plan...  more »tation owner Jonathan Bowman takes a too personal interest in her.
Confronted by the cruelties of slavery, Sarah feels trapped in an unjust system. The only person she trusts for advice is thousands of miles away. If only she could read the book he gave her and find the answer to the emptiness in her soul!
The release from her bondage--and the key to her future--likes in the hands of a young slave girl. 
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