Bricktop - alias Jeff Carson - reckless rogue, black bastard offspring of an octoroom wench and a passing stranger... Masquerading as a white man in the violent world of the Old South, where betrayal and death await him around any corner... Fugitive, he dares undertake a journey into terror. A return to the dread plantation where he was born - and cruelly branded a slave. In a daring effort, Jeff risks his freedom and his life to save the one woman he truly loves. Save her from the man who once had owned him - and who now lives only to kill him.