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GLORY OVER EVERYTHING

Kathleen Grissom

Beyond The Kitchen House

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Kitchen House continues in this new stand-alone novel the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad.
This new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only to discover that his aristocratic lover Caroline is pregnant. Before he can reveal his real identity to her, he learns that his beloved servant Pan has been captured and sold into slavery in the South. Pan’s father, to whom Jamie owes a great debt, pleads for Jamie’s help, and Jamie agrees, knowing the journey will take him perilously close to Tall Oakes and the ruthless slave hunter who is still searching for him. Meanwhile, Caroline’s father learns and exposes Jamie’s secret, and Jamie loses his home, his business, and finally Caroline.

Heartbroken and with nothing to lose, Jamie embarks on a trip to a North Carolina plantation where Pan is being held with a former Tall Oakes slave named Sukey, who is intent on getting Pan to the Underground Railroad. Soon the three of them are running through the Great Dismal Swamp, the notoriously deadly hiding place for escaped slaves. Though they have help from those in the Underground Railroad, not all of them will make it out alive.

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Kathleen Grissom is now happily rooted in south-side Virginia. She is the author of The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything. You can visit her website at KathleenGrissom.com.
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Published 2016-04-05 by Simon & Schuster

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Breathless to the end.

Kathy Grissom has received The Women in the Arts Recognition Award from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). "The Women in the Arts Recognition Award is available to DAR members and non-members and is designed to recognize worthy women at the community level for outstanding achievements in the non-performance arts. . . . . The recipient is expected to have contributed to her artistic field in an outstanding manner beyond mastery of technique [and]have demonstrated outstanding contributions to their field."

Brings the 1830s to life, a time when slavery was still thriving, freed slaves lived in fear of recapture and abolitionists were becoming increasingly active…will appeal to readers who appreciate a thought-provoking historical drama.