In Africa, Love, heat and human passion inside the Great Mississippi Swamp transform a tiny wilderness camp into an enduring community in a lost chapter of American history. Rose and Cicero built their dream world only to have those connected by blood and circumstance move into the swamp and challenge the old generation's ways.

This African American family would survive!

The book is the story of Rose and Cicero learning to survive, falling in love in a grim time and refusing to become victims of the free enterprise spin put on freedom after the Civil War.