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July is born to a field slave Kitty at the Amity sugar caneplantation, run by John Howarth and his younger sisterCaroline. On a spoilt whim, Caroline decides she wants totrain the adorable July as her personal maid. So, as a younggirl, July is taken from her mother and forced to live in thegreat house. As July grows up and becomes a teenager, shelearns how to 'handle' her mistress with her own smallvictories along the way.The Christmas riots and the abolitionof slavery turn the world of Amity upside down and throw July'sdestiny into question. But when order is restored and a newoverseer Robert Goodwin arrives at Amity, July and Carolineare both intrigued by his seemingly revolutionary plans toimprove the plantation. Could his ideals change everything?.