The Sleeping Night
by Barbara Samuel

An unforgettable romance in an unforgiving time.

They’ll need love and courage to see the dawn.

He’s a hometown native, returning from the war, determined to change the world he'd fought to protect. She’s the girl who’s been his secret friend since childhood, now a beautiful woman. Her war-time letters kept him alive. But he’s black, and she’s white.

In 1946 in Gideon, Texas, their undeniable love might get them both killed.

Barbara Samuel's Bio

Barbara Samuel is a multiple RITA award-winning author with more than 25 books to her credit, both historical and contemporary romances and women's fiction.

Barbara has made her way by writing since she was eighteen, penning newspaper and magazine articles, columns and opinion, before settling in with an ancient IBM typewriter and even more ancient house, rescued from the wrecking ball, to write fiction. Her work has captured a plethora of awards, including four RITAs; the Colorado Center for the Book Award (twice); Favorite Book of the Year from Romance Writers of America, and the Library Journal's list of Best Genre Fiction of the year, among many others. She now writes women's fiction for Ballantine, romances for Silhouette, and columns for her website and Novelist's Ink.