All We Were Promised A Novel

Ashton Lattimore, Shayna Small

eAudio - 2024

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia—“a gripping novel about standing up to impossible odds” (People, Best New Books)The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Together, they will risk everything for one another in this “beguiling story of friendship, deception, and women crossing boundaries in the name of freedom” (Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends).BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK • A WASHINGTON POST AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel... different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After all, Philadelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American... more