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The Missing EaglesCairo, Egypt 1813The Bakhoum and Nacif families were arranging a marriage. The dowry was negotiated in letters, some in pictorial writings to disguise the possession of priceless family heirlooms. When a few notes fall in the hands of a British naval officer, family members go missing. Lady MathildaAgainst her better judgment, Mathilda Sears takes a job as a lady's companion in London. Complications arise when polite society goes abuzz over a missing shipment, and then a certain lord, aware of the conspiracy, takes a marked interest in Mathilda. As the daughter of a baron, the match is deemed tolerable, but hardly a brilliant one for his lordship. However, the courtship becomes neither here nor there when Mathilda learns that the shipment is a family..Lady ElizaAlabama 1824Eliza Jamieson, a slave living in nineteenth-century Alabama, learns that her family was captured and enslaved for a specific reason. While the family plans to escape and return home, Eliza enacts a plan to lessen the threat against them, and in the process, goes from being Eliza to Lady Eliza.
The Missing EaglesCairo, Egypt 1813The Bakhoum and Nacif families were arranging a marriage. The dowry was negotiated in letters, some in pictorial writings to disguise the possession of priceless family heirlooms. When a few notes fall in the hands of a British naval officer, family members go missing. Lady MathildaAgainst her better judgment, Mathilda Sears takes a job as a lady's companion in London. Complications arise when polite society goes abuzz over a missing shipment, and then a certain lord, aware of the conspiracy, takes a marked interest in Mathilda. As the daughter of a baron, the match is deemed tolerable, but hardly a brilliant one for his lordship. However, the courtship becomes neither here nor there when Mathilda learns that the shipment is a family..Lady ElizaAlabama 1824Eliza Jamieson, a slave living in nineteenth-century Alabama, learns that her family was captured and enslaved for a specific reason. While the family plans to escape and return home, Eliza enacts a plan to lessen the threat against them, and in the process, goes from being Eliza to Lady Eliza.
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