Linda is a lesbian mulatto slave who dares the previously unimaginable. Constantly begged for her submission by a master "who asks for what he could take," Linda desperately leaps further down the rabbit hole of her awakening womanhood. Dare she, by books end, totally turn the tables? Linda blossoms into womanhood in the hypocritical town of Asheville, North Carolina in the 1850's under her master's lustful eye and her grandmother's loving care. Infatuated by her fair skin and enduring beautiful black features of her maturing body, Dr. Flint begins pressuring her sexually. His jealous wife wishes to see her dead after assuming Linda is pregnant with her husband's child and a physical fight where she is bested by Linda. One might assume that Shades of Grey has submitted to 12 Years a Slave in this novel about faith, family, and the incidents of a young girl finding herself while seeking freedom. Filled with captivating characters and text, this book is not the tale your mother read. Revised from Harriet Jacobs' original 1861 autobiography, 'Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl'; Tanksley creates a substantially differing tale.