In the early 1800's a young farm boy who had never traveled beyond the local village is invited by his brother's friend to join him on a ship to America. Even though he was aware that he would be travelng on a slave ship, little did he realize what that truly meant or that he would fall in love with a light brown-skinned, green-eyed beauty whom he'd take for his wife. He had no idea of the problems to be encountered in this union and the birth of their children in Georgia. Their last child of this mixed blood union is a white male. His life is full of unknown pitfalls in love, secrets of his birth and constant fear that his true lineage would be discovered. Will it be? The answers are in the pages of this novel.