A Creole teenager receives a slave girl as a birthday gift, exposing prejudice amid family financial ruin and shifting fortunes with a Christian doctor.
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A Creole teenager receives a slave girl as a birthday gift, exposing prejudice amid family financial ruin and shifting fortunes with a Christian doctor.
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For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will both women find the love and security they long for?
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Sexual content
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Romantic subplots for two women seeking love and security; likely fade-to-black
Violence & gore
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References to mistreatment within slavery context
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Christian doctor protagonist and recurring faith themes
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Themes of racial prejudice and slavery in Creole society
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Slavery, physical mistreatment of a slave, sale of a person, and systemic prejudice
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