Chasing The North Star

In his latest historical novel, bestselling author Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of Jonah Williams, who, in 1850, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born a slave. He takes with him only a few stolen coins, a knife and the clothes on his back — no shoes, no map, no clear idea of where to head, except north, following a star that he prays will be his guide.