The River North
June 1857. The Margie Louise is setting out from Canebrake on her first true journey-north along the Mississippi, farther than anyone aboard has ever traveled before.
For Joseph Cyprian, the voyage means far more than freight, river towns, and miles beneath the paddlewheel.
Joseph carries papers declaring him a free man, but in an America still governed by the Fugitive Slave Act and newly shaken by the Dred Scott decision, freedom is not always as simple as the words written on a page. He travels toward Wisconsin hoping to find something he has never been able to take for granted: the certainty that his life belongs to him.
lodie travels beside him, knowing that whatever Joseph finds at the end of the river may determine her future as well.
And watching it all is eight-year-old Margot "Muggy" Verret-wild-haired, sharp-minded, and already the unlikely owner of two steamboats. As Thomas teaches her freight accounts and the crew teaches her the river, Muggy begins to understand that owning the boats is only the beginning. One day, she will have to know how to run them.
As the Margie Louise pushes north against the Mississippi current, each new town brings unfamiliar faces, unexpected opportunities, difficult questions, and glimpses of a life none of them could have imagined when they left Canebrake.
For Joseph, the journey begins as a search for freedom.
What he finds may be something even greater-the freedom to choose where he belongs.
The River North is Book Three of the Still Waters series, a richly researched historical novel of family, freedom, friendship, belonging, and the lives ordinary people built amid the extraordinary changes of nineteenth-century America.
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