The Cloud's Whisper

During turbulent times, in The Cloud’s Whisper, passion peaks again and again. Dan Crispin, a man who escaped from slavery, spent his early years seducing and abandoning more women than he intended to remember. After nearly being killed by slave catchers he was nursed back to health by his first love. Feisty and steady Zephyrine grounds him as he becomes a successful pre-Civil War Cincinnati businessman. His redeemed life is filled with romance, dangerous work as an Underground Railroad conductor and the unending attempt to right past indiscretions.

Patience Starbuck, a wealthy Quaker abolitionist and women’s rights advocate, is the person who staked Dan to his entré into the stagecoach business. She is committed to healing both society’s shortcomings and her friends’ wounds. Without asking his approval she searches for Dan’s scattered children. Dan’s former lovers have relocated from the Rocky Mountains to the Trail of Tears, Rock Island to Michigan. Tragically one desperate mother gives her freeborn daughter to a slave plantation where she is sometimes called, “the almost white nigger.”

Despite widespread racism and the lack of human rights, Dan’s deep love for Zephyrine and a conscience based on his mother’s teachings fuels his climb from slave to legendary lover toward heroism.

The Cloud’s Whisper is designed to be read as a stand-alone. It also builds upon the story line from Sarah’s Song, Out of the Shadow of Darkness, and The Courtship of Queens, the first three books in the Esi Was My Mother series. Several characters have appeared in each of the previous books. Unlike Sarah’s Song, The Cloud’s Whisper is not fortified by family oral history. However, it is even more reliant on the historical record.

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