Riley, Vanessa

Island queen : a novel / PRINT Vanessa Riley. - First edition. - 575 pages : map ; 24 cm

"Based on the incredible true-life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies" -- Front jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-375).

9780063002845 0063002841


Historical fiction.
Freed persons--Montserrat--Fiction
Businesswomen--Montserrat--Fiction
Man-Women relationship--Fiction

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