This book contains Uma's full story and is a full length novel (93,000 words/321 pages) with no cliffhangers. BONUS: In the end you'll find the first chapters of the last book in the Slave series, called King of Slaves (Jenna's story) Book 5 The Feisty Slave: Uma was born a slave and grew up in a war zone. With a good head on her shoulders and a feisty personality, Uma has fought off grown men more than once. Brutality, violence, and dirty tricks are her world But when Uma is rescued from slavery a new world opens up to her, challenging her to reconsider the simplistic worldview her loving mother and the other female slaves have drilled into her brain: All men are swine! After moving to London, Uma meets Aidan, who is four years older and doesn't know about her past as a slave; to Aidan, Uma is nothing but a spoiled brat with an attitude problem. That's fine with Uma; she doesn't like Aidan anyway... he's a guy, after all... she'll just push his buttons and make him snap with rage. That should prove once and for all that all men are brutal and mean. Only, Aidan isn't like other men... and Uma can't stop having disturbing thoughts about him... and her. This book is intended for mature readers only as it contains graphic language and sexual scenes of a violent nature. The Slave series consists of separate, but intertwined, stories. For the best reading experience, this is the recommended order to read them in. At least be sure to read the Healing Slave before The Feisty Slave as part of Uma's story is told in that book. The Accidental Slave (Aya's story) The Healing Slave (Sybina's story) Never a Slave (Sofia's story) The Feisty Slave (Uma's story) King of Slaves (Jenna's story)

"...substantial contribution to African-American Studies and women's studies." --Mississippi Quarterly "A bravura performance by an accomplished scholar... it strikes a perfect balance between insightful literary analysis and historical investigation." --Eighteenth-Century Studies "... an impressive study of a wide range of writers.... Foster's work is both scholarly and accessible. Her prose is economical and direct, making this book enjoyable as well as instructive." --Belles Lettres "... an impressively wide-ranging discussion of texts and contexts... " --Signs "Foster has written a fine book that provides the reader with a context for understanding the importance of the written word for women who chose to 'set the record straight'." --Journal of American History "... fascinating, meticulously researched... Likely to prove seminal in the field... highly recommended... " --Library Journal " Written by Herself comprises a volume of remarkable female characters whose desires for social change often made them catalysts for spiritual awakening in their own times." --MultiCultural Review "... an outstanding piece of scholarship... Foster's book offers deeply intelligent, provocative, totally accessible analysis of a tradition and of writers still not sufficiently read and taught." --American Literature "Well written and thoroughly researched. Highly recommended... " --Choice The first comprehensive cultural history of literature by African American women prior to the 20th century. From the oral histories of Alice, a slave born in 1686, to the literary tradition that included Jarena Lee and Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, this literature was argument, designed to correct or to instruct an audience often ignorant about or even hostile to black women.

As Eleanor Stark stood among the group of girls being auctioned off as slaves, her heart pounded with a mix of fear, anger, and determination. She had lost everything that mattered to her—her family, her pack, and her once peaceful life. Now, she was faced with a future of servitude under the very alpha she despised, Zane Mackane. Zane, known for his brutality and ambition, had built his pack through conquest and domination. The acquisition of girls from other packs was one of his methods of accumulating wealth. But little did he know that among these girls stood the one destined to be his mate, chosen by the moon goddess herself. The tension in the air was palpable as the bidding commenced. Eleanor's gaze met Zane's, a burning intensity passing between them. In that moment, they both felt an undeniable connection, an inexplicable pull that defied the rules of their kind. An alpha isn't supposed to mate with an outsider, especially a slave, or he will be dethroned and banished from the pack. Would alpha Zane be able to make the slave his mate and will Eleanor be able to carry out her revenge? This is book 1 of the story

When Legiak, the great chief of the Haida Indians, who rules the Queen Charlotte Islands, needed gifts for his upcoming marriage potlatch, he raided a small Tlingit village. His son was marrying a chief’s daughter from a Salish village. His son had enough blankets to buy her. And in order to show his son’s new father-in-law just how powerful he was, he wanted to add the gifts of slaves. But as ill-luck would have it, a small Russian ship, filled with hunters and trappers will ventured into this village in search of sea otter for Russia’s Catherin the Great and for profit. This will be the furthest journey from the north that any foreign explorer will have ventured into. They will be in the islands along the Pacific coast of Canada. Three of these Russians will survive the slaughter of Legiak’s warriors and only one will escape. The other two will become slaves and one of these two will marry and father a half-breed man-child that will go on great adventures and he will find his first love on a faraway island.

A modern-day doctor gets trapped in third-century Carthage, Rome, where she uncovers buried secrets, confronts Christian persecution, and battles a deadly epidemic to save the man she loves. A twenty-first-century doctor. A third-century plague. A love out of time. First-year resident Dr. Lisbeth Hastings is too busy to take her father’s bizarre summons seriously. But when a tragic mistake puts her career in jeopardy, answering her father’s call seems her only hope of redeeming the devastating failure that her life has become. While exploring the haunting cave at her father’s archaeological dig, Lisbeth falls through a hidden hole, awakening to find herself the object of a slave auction and the ruins of Roman Carthage inexplicably restored to a thriving metropolis. Is it possible that she’s traveled back in time, and, if so, how can she find her way back home? Cyprian Thascius believes God called him to rescue the mysterious woman from the slave trader’s cell. What he doesn’t understand is why saving the church of his newfound faith requires him to love a woman whose peculiar ways could get him killed. But who is he to question God? As their different worlds collide, it sparks an intense attraction that unites Lisbeth and Cyprian in a battle against a deadly epidemic. Even as they confront persecution, uncover buried secrets, and ignite the beginnings of a medical revolution, Roman wrath threatens to separate them forever. Can they find their way to each other through all these obstacles? Or are the eighteen hundred years between them too far of a leap?

A twenty-first-century doctor. A third-century plague. A love out of time. Filled with gripping action and raw emotion, The Carthage Chronicles follows the unexpected adventures of Lisbeth Hastings, a twenty-first-century doctor, as she finds herself dropped into third-century Carthage in the middle of the fledgling early Christian church as they battle Roman persecution and a historic plague. Even as Lisbeth seeks a way back to her time, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to Cyprian Thascius, the charismatic Roman noble trying his best to keep the church together in the midst of impossible obstacles. Can Lisbeth and Cyprian find their way to each other through all that stands between them? Or are the 1800 years that separate them too far of a leap? Follow this incredibly compelling adventure of star-crossed lovers in the electric series The Carthage Chronicles. This ebook boxed set contains the first two novels of The Carthage Chronicles, as well as two e-novellas and a sneak peek at the final novel.

During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of African descent were promised freedom by the British if they would desert their American rebel masters and serve the loyalist cause. Those who responded to this promise found refuge in New York. In 1783, after Britain lost the war, they were evacuated to Nova Scotia, where for a decade they were treated as cheap labor by the white loyalists. In 1792 they were finally offered a new home in West Africa; over 1,200 responded and became the founders of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This history follows ten of these freed slaves from their escape from masters in Virginia and the Carolinas to their sojourn in wartime New York, their evacuation to Nova Scotia and finally their exodus to Freetown, where they struggled for another decade for not only freedom and dignity but the right to worship as they choose, make an honest living, and govern themselves.