Little by little Malcolm wins her over, but the painful racial dynamics around them threaten to poison their relationship. Malcolm is a skilled spy and a good person, but Elle has a hard time bringing herself to trust a glib and charming white man whose job requires him to be a gifted liar.
But her careful work is thrown into disarray by the arrival of Malcolm McCall, a detective in the Pinkerton network who is posing as a Confederate soldier paying social visits to the household where Elle works. Elle’s photographic memory makes her extremely valuable to the Loyal League, a network of black spies working to undermine the Confederacy.
Her “masters” are living the high life in spite of a punishing Union blockade that’s causing widespread suffering and starvation in Richmond, Virginia. She is “going to help destroy the Confederacy.” But to do that, she has to do something she never imagined possible-pose as an enslaved woman on loan to a family of spoiled whites. A spy posing as a slave in Civil War Virginia risks her own life and the outcome of the war by falling in love with a fellow spy of another race.Īfter being freed from slavery as a child, Ellen “Elle” Burns has one purpose.
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