them, so I was overjoyed to learn that she’d be writing a new series, Migrations of the Heart. The first in this series is A Virtuous Ruby, about a headstrong young woman in Winslow, Georgia who chooses to live as a black woman when she was clearly able to pass for white in a time when living as a white woman would have made for a less dangerous, more comfortable life. Ruby and her illegitimate child, Solomon, live with her family, the Bledsoe’s in rural Georgia, where Ruby is known to stir up trouble.

When Ruby meets Dr. Adam Moreson, she’s not surprised that he would choose to live as a white man, with more privilege and freedom, but she IS disappointed, knowing what her relatives (like her UncleArlo) have endured to ensure rights and freedoms for her family and others that live in Winslow.

Adam has his own cross to bear. The product of an encounter between a black maid and a white man, he looks more like the white side of his family and chooses to become a doctor, attending a white college and living life as a white man. But Ruby knows that Adam is just as she is and encourages him to embrace and acknowledge a history and ancestry that makes him a target for those that are resistant to change. Adam’s father runs Winslow– the town is named after him, after all. Adam has to choose between a life of privilege where no one need know that he is half black but