The Bondswomen is a work of suspenseful, historical fiction, about an escaped slave woman from Virginia, who enlists the help of a female Underground Railroad agent, to rescue family held in bondage in the Deep South. It is a saga that reveals the bonds of generations of a family, in black and in white, slave and master, from North Africa, to Antebellum Virginia, to New Orleans of the mid-century, to the expanding sugar empire of Florida, and finally to freedom in Canada.