The final installment of Parker's popular trilogy finds young Theo, a slave freed following the Civil War, searching for his mother, while Hampton York hopes to restore the plantation he's dreamt of owning to its former glory.

Gary E. Parker is the best-selling author of ten novels and three novellas, including Secret Tides and Fateful Journeys. A Christy Award finalist, Parker has become CBA's source for sweeping sagas of faith and family. A PhD graduate of Baylor University, he serves as the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Georgia.