Magdala

Forced from home by circumstances beyond her control, beautiful young Magdala finds herself tasked with the care of a widower’s infant and boarding house kitchen. Driven by a survivor’s instinct, she demands a dead-bolted door to her quarters, securing a place of safety where she settles into a restful routine of heating bottles and changing diapers that allows time for reading, reflection, and healing. The sweet comfort of domestic routine is punctuated by a grim repetition of indignities, abuses, and downright horrors – all of which Magdala strives to overcome.

Author of Under the Circumstances, Susan Middleton has created another page-turning read whose heroes and heroines approach the racial realities of the American southeast in the late 1800s with courage and candor.

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Praise for Magdala

In Susan Middleton’s Magdala, we have a character we care about, can root for. And for my money, there’s nothing better.

Bren McClain, Author “One Good Mama Bone”

Love truly does conquer all in this story, a prequel to Susan Middleton’s heartwarming novel Under the Circumstances. Same town, house, but an earlier time, when unthinkable things happened as the South emerged from Reconstruction. With spot-on historical details and and eye for the simple pleasures of food and table, this book will slowly but inexorably draw you into Magdala’s world.

Kathryn Smith, Author “Baptists and Bootleggers: A Prohibition Expedition” & “Through the South…with Cocktail Recipes”