The life of Ulysses Brooke is a complicated one growing up in the south on a prosperous plantation that used slaves for workers, and Ulysses is set to inherit it. Onlookers would say he had it all and much more. Ulysses, however, disagreed. How could...

To the Manor Born by Matthew Speiser is a contemporary speculative fiction novel beginning in Virginia at Rosewood Manor, where Atticus Brooke, an indentured slave in the Confederate States of America, toils alongside other “indents” under their owner, Confederate General Franklin Brooke. Facing the imminent...