Book one center's around Manny's struggle to ignore his growing love, for his negro slave, or bed-wench - Lena. Sold from her Island home where her father ruled as king. Tossed in with other captured negro prisoners, she ends up as property to the Webster's. Due to Morris's gambling habit, where he wins the lot. Ruing the day that he had, from the first moment he set eyes on the negro wench, his forecast of events to come were dead on. This one was different, knowing this, dread washed over him, fearing for his son. Soon chain of events began to take place, and with one event after the other, nothing would ever be the same again for Webster Fields. Especially once his son, gave up the fight denying his love for her, costing him a price that other's as well would have to pay.

Main Character's of Book One:

• Maynard Ramsey Webster..... (Manny)

• Princess Ces'alena.........................(Lena)

• Morris Roland Webster........(Manny's Father)

• Michael Ramsey Webster...(Manny's son by Lena)

• Golden Hope Webster........ (Manny's daughter by Lena)

• Kayleen....(Kitchen Slave, Manny's confidant & Morris's curse)

• Katherine Sanders.........(Manny's wife)

• Charles A. Wilson.........(Manny's solicitor & friend)

• Jordan.... (Slave & Manny's best friend)

• Chief Long Bow...... (Chief of Cherokee tribe)

• Josephine O'Brien..... ( Daughter of "The O'Brien's & Red Dawn, wife to Chief Long Bow)

• Red Crow.....(Son of Chief Long Bow & Red Dawn)

• Thomas Sandoval.... (Free man, abolitionist /teacher)

Princess Ceś alena
 

Princess Ceś alena, you’ve touched my heart,

enslaved my soul, right from the start.

Your smile so bright, your eyes boldly gold,

but to love you not, is what I’m told.

 

Your skin so brown, so smooth, so soft,

and in all of my dreams, within you I am lost.

Oh yes it is true, a white man I be,

the spell that you’ve cast, I’ve tried to break free.

God only knows of my struggle to kill,

and deny you the love, in my heart that I feel.

 

Manny I am, a powerful man,

not often moving from where ever I stand.

Then Lena comes, a blinding light,

my strength I then lose, and no longer think right.

 

Before me she is, I can’t understand,

how weak I become, from one touch of her hand.

Okay, I give up, and admit I am through,

for each day that passes, I find myself falling,

deeper, and deeper … in love with you!
 

Written by, Mercedes Keyes
Copyright©amberswann, 2000

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