Dantès and the Tears of Slavery: A Historical Family Saga Caribbean

He follows Michel Dantès, a young botanist from Bordeaux who steps off the boat in Saint-Pierre with a letter of introduction and a second, secret purpose: to tell Paris what is really done to the enslaved on the island's plantations. The Valreuils, one of the most powerful families in the colony, greet him with smiles. Their patriarch owns three hundred people. Old Germonde, in her house on the hill, seems to know who he is before he says a word. And the servants whisper that something called the Tears of Aimée protects the family from hurricanes and from men alike. Then Isabelle arrives from Scotland, and Michel falls for the one woman he should not love. Between Tchaka's runaways in the hills, planters plotting in the dark, and pirates prowling the coast, he begins to understand that the Valreuils are not the only ones who don't know who they really are. Four years before emancipation, on an island where freedom is expected to come by ship, one man will have to choose between the law that is coming and the people who refuse to wait for it. No one leaves the Valreuil estate unchanged. Not even the man who thought he was only a witness.