Ransom of Love Author:Al & Joanna Lacy The Price of Freedom runs high in the deep south. A "king's Ransom" can't buy it for lovely slave girl Dorena. Will Benjamin fail the master's cruel test and lose her to another man? — Nineteen-year-old Benjamin arrives from South Agrica earmarked to be sold into slavery but is set free by a kindly Christian in Charleston, South Carolina. Zack... more » Johnson takes him on as a paid servant, and Ben earns the money to go west with Zack's adventurous son, Dan. To pioneer in Texas, Ben must leave his fiancee, Dorena, enslaved on the plantation until he can earn the full price of her freedom. With bold dreams and the vision of bringing their eastern brides west, Ben and Dan struggle against harsh elements and neighbor Jules Crain's blood hot bigotry to forge a new life by faith. Then Ben learns Dorena's been sold and discovers the true cost of a ransom of love.« less