The Mercy Line

Beulah Carver has spent years hiding nickels beneath her porch, saving for the day her son might escape the Mississippi Delta and get a real education up North. But in April 1927, the levee breaks—and the floodwaters swallow everything she owns. Trapped in a segregated refugee camp, separated from her injured husband, and held captive by the same white landowner who has controlled her family for years, Beulah must decide how much she is willing to risk for freedom. A powerful story of courage, sacrifice, and the fierce love that builds a way out of the impossible.