I was six years old the day Lewis Holt came to take me away.īorn into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother-or what happened to her. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lake Union Publishing (September 1, 2021)Ī young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.ġ850.Grab this one here: Amazon | | Barnes & Noble

⁣Thank you OTRPR and Amazon Publishing for the gifted book and having me on tour!⁣ It’s ultimately a heartbreaking, yet compelling story of courage, hope, love, and the strength and resilience of the human spirit.⁣Ĭheck out an exclusive excerpt from the book below! There are several twists and turns I didn’t see coming at all, and I appreciated it’s historical accuracies. It’s so interesting to follow her choices as you feel distraught when her impulses fail, inspired at her determined triumphs – but also see the lines drawn on both sides as you watch how far she will go to live the life she deserves.⁣įor readers of Passing and The Vanishing Half, What Passes as Love is written beautifully, and has a captivating and absorbing plot that never lets go and is equally hard to put down. ―Kimberla Lawson Roby, New York Times bestselling author of Casting the First Stone

Thomas has…so brilliantly…written a powerful, thought-provoking, truly cinematic historical novel that will have you turning pages well into the wee hours of the morning. It’s impossible not to root for her, however risky her actions.”ĭahlia reinvents herself as Lily Dove, and when her childhood best friend Bo arrives to the estate as a slave – she is determined to be an advocate for him and the other slaves, and try to save his life – but will this raise suspicions?Īnd as she learns a bounty hunter has been charged to find her – she knows she needs to act fast if her and Bo have any chance.īut as Dahlia tries to navigate this white world, she is in constant fear of being found out – and finds herself not feeling like she truly belongs anywhere. “The author really gets inside Dahlia’s head…She’s resourceful, a chance-taker who dreams and schemes until opportunities present themselves. What Passes as Love is the story of Dahlia Holt, mixed-race daughter of a plantation owner who passes as white to escape enslavement, but finds herself in a loveless marriage to a man with secrets of his own.

I love when a fictional story can draw you in to help you learn and understand the past, while also have you on the edge of your seat.⁣

What Passes as Love by Trisha R. Thomas