{"product_id":"red-clay-daughter-corey-mack-9798258123312","title":"Red Clay Daughter","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn early nineteenth-century Georgia, a father's promise becomes a prison, a daughter's silence becomes rebellion, and a man held in bondage is forced into the center of a house built on lies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eLenora Jackson has spent most of her life inside the shadow of her father's plantation house. Paralyzed from the waist down after a childhood fever, she has endured years of pity, failed courtships, and polite rejection from families who see her not as a woman, but as a burden. Her father, Gideon Jackson, is determined that she will not be left unmarried, dependent, or exposed to the gossip of Wilkes County.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Gideon's world is collapsing. His estate is drowning in debt. His fields cannot produce enough cotton to satisfy his creditors. His dead wife's property has been spent, sold, or pledged away. With no respectable marriage prospects left for Lenora, Gideon makes a decision he calls protection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe forces a private \"covenant\" between Lenora and Josiah, the strongest and most trusted enslaved man on the plantation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo Gideon, it is order. To Reverend Pike, it is an irregular but necessary household arrangement. To the county, it becomes a rumor too scandalous to name plainly. But to Lenora and Josiah, it is something far more brutal: coercion dressed as duty, ownership disguised as care, and a lie placed in the mouth of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the arrangement tightens around them, Lenora begins reading the ledgers her father hoped to keep hidden. What she discovers changes everything: debt, sale lists, family secrets, burned papers, and the terrifying truth that the lives of Josiah, his mother Hester, his brother Ben, and others on the plantation have all been reduced to figures in Gideon's books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the red clay roads, cotton fields, churchyards, back steps, and hidden rooms of Georgia in 1806, \u003cb\u003eRed Clay Daughter\u003c\/b\u003e is a Southern Gothic historical novel about slavery, disability, family power, religious hypocrisy, and the cost of naming the truth in a world built to silence it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark, intimate, and morally unflinching, Corey Mack's novel asks a devastating question: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen a house is built on ownership, what must burn before anyone inside it can be free?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Corey Mack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798258123312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.24d","brand":"Corey Mack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665597862143,"sku":"9798258123312","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-clay-daughter-corey-mack-9798258123312","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}