Cairo, Egypt 1813

The Bakhoum and Nacif families were arranging a marriage. The dowry was negotiated in letters, some in pictorial writings to disguise the possession of priceless family heirlooms.  When a few notes fall in the hands of a British naval officer, family members go missing.

Alabama 1824

Eliza Jamieson, a slave living in nineteenth-century Alabama, learns that her family was captured and enslaved for a specific reason.  While the family plans to escape and return home, Eliza enacts a plan to lessen the threat against them, and in the process, goes from being Eliza to Lady Eliza.