Augustus Cain is a war-scarred wanderer with an uncanny, if unwelcome, ability to track the most elusive runaway slaves. To repay a debt and keep his horse, which he carelessly gambled away, he must head north from Virginia and retrieve a runaway named Rosetta.
In the tradition of 'Cold Mountain' comes this bold, exquisitely written and profoundly moving epic of a slave catcher and a young woman on the run on the even of the Civil War.
