The Lion and the Lamb

While The Lion and the Lamb may be read as a stand-alone, it also builds upon the story line from Sarah’s Song, Out of the Shadow of Darkness, The Courtship of Queens, The Cloud’s Whisper, and River Woman Joined at the Heart, the first five books in the Esi Was My Mother series. Among the continuing themes are the proper relationship between siblings and the African-American, European-American and Native American engagement in the anti-slavery movement.

Dan Crispin, Sarah Ferguson, and Robin, three of the children of Esi, a slave on Fruits of the Spirit Plantation escaped to Ohio, under the leadership of Caesar, a man with African roots whose family had been a part of the Shawnee nation for four generations. As The Lion and the Lamb opens, Dan has become an Underground Railroad conductor and successful owner of a stagecoach line with headquarters in Cincinnati, “the kidnapping capital of the world.” His efforts to try to prove himself a gentlemen are challenged by the primary stresses of trying to build positive relationships with the geographically dispersed children he fathered before marriage to the love of his life, Zephyrine; getting out of a verbal contract with the wealthy abolitionist and suffragette, Patience Starbuck; and the racist environs in which he lives.

Dan’s sister Fannie had been sold to a breeding plantation, separated from the rest of her family. Pragmatic and resilient, when The Lion and the Lamb begins, Fannie lives in the Rocky Mountains among the Bannock, married to a warrior she loves deeply, and grieving the death of one son and the kidnapping of another. She enlists the services of the iconic Sacajawea to attempt to reunite the family.

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