A Touch of Jasmine — Brenda B. Dawson

Orphaned in 1840's New York, Molly endured life among the many slum urchins, until rescued by good Samaritans and placed in a seemingly good home in Arkansas. There, the feisty Molly discovered nothing good about the home and vowed to escape. Returning to Jasmine Plantation, Arkansas, Sonny Scott found his only love had died birthing his son a year earlier. Now, his child was held captive by the new "queen of the plantation", the mysterious slave known as Manon. Knowing certain death if she learned the secrets he'd discovered, he had to escape with his son. Unlikely comrades, Molly and Sonny met in a field in the glow of the fires they'd set to escape their wrongful imprisonments. Without one another, neither had a chance to survive, but on the long journey back to Texas, could they possibly survive one another?