
The year is 1830 & Jamie Pyke a celebrated silversmith & notorious ladies' man is keeping a deadly secret Passing as a wealthy white aristocrat in Philadelphian society Jamie is now living a life he could never have imagined years before when he was a runaway slave son of a southern black slave & her master But Jamie's carefully constructed world is threatened when he discovers that his married socialite lover Caroline is pregnant & his beloved servant Pan to whose father Jamie owes his own freedom has been captured & sold into slavery in the South Fleeing the consequences of his deceptions Jamie embarks on a trip to a North Carolina plantation to save Pan from the life he himself barely escaped as a boy With the help of a fearless slave Sukey who has taken the terrified young boy under her wing Jamie navigates their way racing against time & their ruthless pursuers through the Virginia backwoods the Underground Railroad & the treacherous Great Dismal Swamp