In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...

After the Civil War ends, Addy hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache.

An unlikely friendship develops between a plantation mistress, Hannelore Blessing, and a slave girl, Livie, as they undertake a harrowing journey amidst the rising tension of the Civil War and whispers of the Underground Railroad.

Runaway slave Liz Spocott, wounded during capture by notorious slave trader Patty Cannon, meets an ancient nameless woman in Cannon's prison attic who teaches her "the Code," a cryptic means of communication by which runaways reach freedom, and when she escapes once again, Liz uses the code, as well as visions of the future, to help her on her way north.

In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.

Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.

Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.

Margaret Ashworth, head of the Marietta Historical Society, disappeared after sharing an old Civil-War era newspaper clipping about a pouch of gold that went missing. As the Inn Crown try to help Margaret's family figure out where she could be, LuAnn finds clues to the gold's location. Meanwhile, a former student of LuAnn's is in town researching the Castle, a local historical site undergoing renovation. But Ashley' strange behavior makes LuAnn wonder...

A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.

In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.