Status Updates From Black Ivory

‘Slowly she lifted her eyes to his, & he gazed back & smiled, & his smile was warm & filled with kindness. She felt a strange inner warmth that she couldn’t put a name to, as well as a sensation of being gently tugged closer & closer to him. She had never had such a feeling & didn’t know whether to push it away or accept & treasure it.’

‘On she sang, louder now, & Jewell & Hank took up the song. Then Lela Belle added her thick voice to theirs, chanting the words, the easy, true, heartbreaking words, & their joined voices, drifting on the rising, wailing lament, covered the great field until every slave & hoe boss & water toter was singing. And from every one of them each word was a drop of blood from the heart.’

Fair warning, y’all—the last Saliee O’Brien antebellum ripper I read was uber un-PC & filled with gross acts & cringey language. I will try to keep my updates fairly Work Safe & not traumatizing, but unpleasantness might sneak in despite my efforts. Just FYI for sensitive stomachs.

First time I have read a Bodice Ripper where the girl being rapped is 14yrs old...