![]() ![]() In this third and final novel of the Women Who Dare series, Jenkins once again invites modern readers into the world of Black Americans in the 19th century. Either way, they won’t be able to avoid each other now that their parents have rekindled their youthful romance. Inevitably, their daytime ruse leads to late-night passion, and they must both decide whether love is a good enough reason to scuttle their other plans. They become domestic servants to a loathsome White woman who wants them to act as if they are enslaved. ![]() Raven and Braxton are both dismayed when an ambitious Pinkerton agent threatens their families and forces them to work together on a mission to recover a stolen copy of the Declaration of Independence. He learns that his father was once a forger who worked with the Moreau family and that he was in love with the beautiful Hazel Moreau, Raven’s mother. ![]() ![]() But Braxton’s family history is less straightforward than he imagined. He’s a respectable tailor from Boston, heir to a shipping fortune and a pillar of New England’s Black business community. She’s a fiery Black woman from New Orleans, part of a colorful family of thieves, forgers, and tricksters. Raven Moreau and Braxton Steele could not be more different. In post–Civil War Charleston, an accomplished swindler and a law-abiding tailor pose as a married couple to recover a stolen document. ![]()
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