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Over Jordan

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By Norma Johnston
Publisher HaperCollins Publishers
Over Jordan
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Roxana has know and loved Joss for as long as she can remember, ever since Joss came to Greys Landing ten years earlier, in 1826, to be Roxanas nursery maid.Even before the deaths of her mother and brother in a tragic riverboat accident, Roxana had thought of Joss as family.When her father, a prominent judge, is called to Washington, Roxana must stay behind with Joss and the other free blacks on the plantation to run things and, to her surprise, light the lanternsto act as a stationmaster, if necessary, on the Underground Railway. But even more unsettling to Roxana is the thought that Papa will be traveling on the river.After reports of brutal slave catchers in the area make it clear that Joss and her fiance must seek refuge farther north, its up to Roxana to escort them, posing as an arrogant young slave owner. Her former teacher, Miss Hattie Beecher of Cincinnati, hates slavery, but will Roxana be able to overcome her crippling fear of the river long enough to get them to Miss Hattie? And will others on board the riverboat particularly the gracious young Southern gentleman who takes a fancy to Roxana see through her performance? Or is he, too, masquerading and more dangerous than he seems?Norma Johnston transports readers to the banks and roiling waters of the Ohio River in the difficult days before slavery was abolished, in a gripping historical novel that is also a poignant comingofage story.

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