April 10, 1865: Sapphire Settler is an eight-year-old girl living in Lincoln County, Tennessee as the Civil War nears its end. Born into slavery, she knows nothing of freedom except for the ancestral stories she hears from her mother and the gift of an illegal education she receives from the Master's wife. Emancipation is on the horizon, but Sapphire is unsure of what that means for her family who has lived and died for generations on the Settler...