Meet Me at 10

Meet Me at 10

Vicky Jones

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Editorial:
Hackney and Jones
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Obras de teatro, textos teatrales
ISBN:
9781915216045
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Would you have the courage to risk your life for what is right?Shona, Cuban, Elbie and Chloe. Four lives inextricably linked. Will tragic events part them forever?It’s 1958 and Shona Jackson is on the run for her life again, she was forced to flee Mississippi and the town she’d called home. Arriving in Alabama, she hopes to save up enough money to continue her journey to safety, and convinces Jeffrey Ellis, the wealthy co-owner of a machinery plant, to give her a job. There she strikes up a bond with the equally courageous Cuban.Cuban is on a similar path to Shona. Relentlessly abused because of the color of his skin, his sole ambition is to earn enough to escape to New York, but Ellis’s brutal and callous business partner, Larry Bruce, and his racist workforce are hell-bent on making Cuban’s life unbearable.As events unfold, Shona also finds herself in Larry Bruce’s murderous and bloodthirsty sights.Their only hope is Elbie, the elderly tool room supervisor, who has been covertly keeping a diary to one day expose all the horrific and disturbing acts perpetrated over the last five years by Bruce and his associates.But when Chloe Bruce, Larry’s beautiful daughter, returns from college and is introduced to the workforce, there are devastating and irreversible consequences for all those involved.Will Elbie’s diary end up in the wrong hands?Will Cuban achieve his dream of making it to New York?And will Shona’s past finally catch up with her?Meet Me at 10 is the second enthralling novel in an epic historical fiction trilogy about a story of secrets too dangerous to confess in a time of cruel, unforgiving and relentless intolerance to difference.Buy NOWThe Complete TrilogyBook 1: ShonaBook 2: Meet Me At 10Book 3: The Beach House

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