‘It is one of the best books I have read in my entire life’ - Oprah Winfrey Hiram Walker is a man with a gift and a curse. He was born between worlds: his father a white plantation master, his mother a black slave. Hidden amidst the corrupt grandeur of white plantation society, there exists a widespread network of secret agents working to liberate the enslaved. Hiram fast becomes a highly skilled agent, retrieving the enslaved from the most dangerous circumstances - but betrayals lurk everywhere