Set Free
*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.Awesome cover by @Aphrodite270…
