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Frannie Langton is on trial for the murders of George and Marguerite Bentham. She doesn’t remember what happened that horrific night. She doesn’t know why she was found covered in blood and found asleep in her Madam’s bed. She could not have done what they say she did because she loved her mistress very much and would not have harmed her. So what really happened?
We learn of Frannie’s life back to the sugar plantation in Jamaica. Frannie’s life was not a pleasant one and was grossly mistreated. T ...more
We learn of Frannie’s life back to the sugar plantation in Jamaica. Frannie’s life was not a pleasant one and was grossly mistreated. T ...more
Jan 25, 2022
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Digital audiobook narrated by the author and Ray McMillan
“I used to be called Frannie Langton before I was taken from Paradise to London and given by Langton as maid to Mr George Benham, who then gave me to his wife. It wasn’t my choice to be brought here, but very little in my life ever was. I was Langton’s creature. If I pleased him, I pleased myself. If he said something was to be, it was. But Langton was a man who’d named his own house Paradise despite all that went on there, and named every ...more
“I used to be called Frannie Langton before I was taken from Paradise to London and given by Langton as maid to Mr George Benham, who then gave me to his wife. It wasn’t my choice to be brought here, but very little in my life ever was. I was Langton’s creature. If I pleased him, I pleased myself. If he said something was to be, it was. But Langton was a man who’d named his own house Paradise despite all that went on there, and named every ...more
RATING: 2 STARS
2019; Harper/HarperCollins
I wanted to love this novel, and tried more than I have in awhile with a book that just isn't doing it for me. The synopsis, genre, and time period was right up my alley. And, some of the book and writing was great, but the portions that Frannie narrates were slow. It just made it hard to pick the book back up again and read further. I found my mind wandering a lot. I did finish the book, as Collins had me intrigued on where this story was going. I did ha ...more
2019; Harper/HarperCollins
I wanted to love this novel, and tried more than I have in awhile with a book that just isn't doing it for me. The synopsis, genre, and time period was right up my alley. And, some of the book and writing was great, but the portions that Frannie narrates were slow. It just made it hard to pick the book back up again and read further. I found my mind wandering a lot. I did finish the book, as Collins had me intrigued on where this story was going. I did ha ...more
