The Black Knight's Tune

Name: The Black Knight's Tune
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Naomi Finley
ISBN: 9781989165324

Author: Naomi Finley

Series: The Livingston Legacy

Narrator: Reagan Boggs

Unabridged: 2 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Huntson Press

Published: 11/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

RUBY STEWART is a slave living under the false pretenses of a freed black woman in New York in 1853. She abides in turmoil longing to know where she came from. This unrest has caused her to be plagued by dreams and visions of a man she calls the Black Knight and a woman with haunting green eyes. Ruby's only recollection of her past is the name Mag, until she receives a letter from friend Willow Hendricks in the South describing a slave girl that passed through her family’s plantation over twenty years ago. Does Ruby dare hope this slave child might be her? Meanwhile her job as a journalist at the Manhattan Observer––a penny newspaper––has Ruby fighting feelings for boss and friend Kipling Reed. She struggles with the impossibility of a relationship between a woman of color and a white man. But her skin color isn’t the only hindrance standing in the way of this romance. The unavailable Willow Hendricks has won the eye of Kipling. Torn by her feelings of a love that can never be, will Ruby be able to put the questions of her past to rest?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christy on January 09, 2020

Captivating This was such a greatly written novella! It speaks to the unjust of the South during this time period, but also enriches our knowledge that there were so many willing to help each other at such a high cost. My favorite line in the book... ““I pray de Lard never allows you to see folkses i......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on February 24, 2024

excellent story I enjoyed reading the second of Ms Finley’s books. I would suggest she learn the difference between she and her. Just finish by reading she was, she did etc as opposed to her was, her did. When using these adverbs it will become clear which to use if you add the verb which could be us......more

Goodreads review by Paula Singleton on June 11, 2019

Loved reading Ruby's story This book should be read after you read the first book in the series. This book concentrated on Ruby who was introduced in the book series and is about her life in the North with adoptive white parents and tells how she came to find out about her father and ended up meeting......more

Goodreads review by Susan on May 28, 2020

Hard earned "freedom", still... Ruby is a delight and a restoration of a family history that seemed dead to one and alive, only in vague dreams and visions, to the other. But the dead can be resurrected and visions made clear. Love abounds all over the place!......more

Goodreads review by Xylene on April 10, 2020

Short and Sweet This story ties up loose ends for Ruby, if you ever wondered about her life. It flows quite nicely and can be read on a Saturday morning. I found the overall story to be absolutely sweet and precious in the end.......more