One Fateful Night, the Klan Changed a Family’s Destiny…

Savannah in 1963 is a place that few of us can imagine: the segregated South, where racial tensions run high, and family secrets are kept at a terrible price. Ten years ago, two sharecroppers were lynched on the Belle Haven plantation by members of the Klan. William Montague, patriarch of the plantation blamed his son, Ethan, for the atrocity. But now he is on his deathbed, and must decide who will inherit his precious Belle Haven. He cannot abide the thought of giving it to Ethan, the Klansman, who blasphemed his land. His daughter, Natalie, has married into the family of his arch rival. But William’s two children do not know that they have a half-brother… William Montague’s illegitimate son by a Negro woman, prior to his marriage. It is this son, Vincent, who inherits Belle Haven. Vincent, his wife, and their five children come from Chicago to claim their tainted inheritance. The family history begins to erupt, and when a white overseer is found dead, a manhunt begins for Vincent’s son Elijah and his friend Mordechai. Join the suspenseful, climactic search for justice, as Belle Haven struggles to overcome her history, and Vincent fights to claim his rightful place.

Anthony Foreman served for 23 years in the Marine Corps, and has also worked for the federal government in Washington, DC. For the past six years he has owned the popular Bourbon Street Grille in Rockford, Illinois. He is the author of the self-help book What Every Teenager Should Know About Life. Mr. Foreman’s father was a sharecropper in Arkansas, and although The Lynchings of Belle Haven is fiction, he wanted to show what life was like for sharecroppers, inspired by his family history.