Mustard Seed

Yellow Crocus, Book 2

The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.

Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth's beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school.

When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she's summoned back to the Virginia plantation where she grew up. There she must face the Confederate family she betrayed by marrying an abolitionist. Jordan and Mattie return to Fair Oaks, too, to save the family they left behind, who still toil in oppression. For Lisbeth, it's a time for reconciliation. For Jordan and Mattie, it's time for liberation.

As the Johnsons and Freedmans confront the injustice that binds them, as well as the bitterness and violence that seethes at its heart, the women must find the courage to free their families - and themselves - from the past.

©2017 Laila Ibrahim (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Post Civil War Virginia and Ohio

A faith filled story of risk and hope . . . and the GOOD that can and will grow when you feed the right spirit within. As a southerner, my heart broke for the pain and wrong suffered by these precious families. None of my family was ever involved in slavery and I've never known anyone personally who was. I'm thankful for brave individuals, like Lisbeth who chose RIGHT over rhetoric. I'm thankful for a body of Christ that embraces all of God's children. And I am very appreciative of writers like Laila Ibrahim who writes books of compassion, truth and enlightenment for us all.

Excellent Book

This is the sequel to Yellow Crocus and I enjoyed it immensely. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Excellent!

Great book and superb narration. It’s the sequel to Yellow Crocus (definitely a must-read!). Though it can be read alone it’s better appreciated if one has first read Yellow Crocus. Yellow Crocus is the better of the two but this is still great. It portrays life in the South for former slaves in the yrs right after the Civil War. The injustices and oppression.

A painful look at our southern society after the Civil War

Living in Virginia I can believe that the lives of slaves did not change much after the Civil war. This book tells a story that is believable and painful to read about.

Great book!!

I love how the story moves so smoothly from character to character and whoever did the narration did a wonderful job!! YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK!!!!!