Black Dawn — Christopher Nicole

His Uncle Robert's death brought Richard Hilton two legacies -- his great slave plantations in Jamaica, and the hatred of his disinherited brother, Tony.

The new master of Hillgate vowed to end its shameful history of slave oppression. Whipping was abolished and black overseers supplanted whites; it seemed that a time of hope was beginning. But reviled by his brutal fellow planters and despised by his dissolute brother, Richard was an easy prey to the corruption around him, that was to lead him into a sordid crime that forced him to flee the island. With Richard presumed dead, sadism and fear once more ruled the estate…