1 Cornelius Ida Mae was the baby of the family then, born in Dodge County, Georgia, a chocolate wisp of a thing with fingers and toes long and skinny like wire grass. Her father, William, was a serious man, an illiterate tenant farmer who grew corn and cotton. The enslaved were prohibited by law from learning to read and write, keeping their hands calloused and occupied with labor and not books.

Join the San Gabriel Valley chapter of N.C.N.W. for their ‘Celebrating A Legacy in Motion’ social.

The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister. It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family. Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the elusive society of vampires she was born into, where human bloodlines gain power through vampire companionship.