Rebel
by Beverly Jenkins
"Reconstruction New Orleans, a Northern volunteer, and the man who fishes her out of the bayou."
Valinda Lacy comes south to teach the newly freed — until thugs destroy her school and Captain Drake LeVeq hauls her out of trouble. Jenkins, the queen of Black historical romance, builds swoon and steel in equal measure against a Reconstruction backdrop most fiction ignores.
Worth knowing
Jenkins received the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award — she pioneered the entire genre of Black historical romance.
