Things past telling: a novel

PART I: IN THE BEFORE TIME: Liberty Township, Highland County, Ohio May 1870

Man Killer

Little Bird

Ouidah

Home

The Tenth Day

Carolina Cove, Queen's Bay, Jamaica About 1769

Caesar

The Black Mary

Caesar's Key

Little One

Medicine Woman, Too

1 Female Abt 16 Yrs Dark Well Formed

North From Savannah

PART II: THE DAUGHTER OF A STRANGE GOD:

White Maple Grove, Chesapeake County, Virginia

The Border Land

Once in a while they'd give us a li'l piece of Sat'day evenin' to wash out clothes in the branch

Mary Reynolds

Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Jeremiah 4:3, King James Version

Patience

Cloudsplitter

The Wedding

James's Wife

Foreknower

PART III: WISE WOMAN: Tomorrow

The Scotsman

Ned

Baby Edward

But They Will Not All Be Yours

Maryam's Boy

The Indian's Cave

Alexander Edward McCulloch Grace

PART IV: MOMMA GRACE: The River

Partus Sequitur Ventrem

Blackjack

Eaton's Stop, Highland County, Ohio Summer, 1870

Acknowledgments

About the Author.