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Set Free

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*Completed*

Third place winner of The Writer's Corner Historical Fiction category!

Lyric Free will not die a slave. The chance to break free is what she lives for. A last escape comes in the form of risking her life to go on the run with a pair of free slaves.                     

Zeke Silver's life is destroyed the second he accidentally kills a man while defending a slave girl. Wanted for murder and forced to dodge the law he crosses paths with Lyric. 

In a second, they reluctantly become intertwined and realize that to get the freedom they crave they'll have to stay together. 

But when Lyric comes across information of a devastating attack on the free slave forces, plans derail and once clear racial lines began to blur. 

In a world where the South won the bloodiest war ever fought on American soil and the Confederate flag flies, minority races are enslaved and racial prejudice is a way of life. 

While in the middle of a society that still owns half of its population, 30 years after the assassination of Lincoln, a slave girl and a fugitive claw for their freedom, survival, and against feelings they both know are forbidden. 

Highest rank: #8 in alternative history 

Updates every Friday.

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