Best-selling author Keith Lee Johnson returns to 1950s New Orleans for this powerful sequel to his sensationally popular Little Black Girl Lost. Teenage beauty Johnnie Wise has seen her share of hardship. Sold into prostitution at an early age, she is an accessory to a murder that sparks terrible race riots. Her boyfriend Lucas wants to give her a better life, but Johnnie has a powerful effect on men-and gangster Napoleon Bentley will stop at nothing...

Revealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on the night before the arranged marriage is to take place on a Dutch slave ship bound for America where she becomes Josephine Baptiste.