Amber Francis is a 16-year-old mass murderer from Salem, Massachusetts. That is what the government wants you to think. Nineteen men are found hung on trees outside her family's circus.
Amber Francis is a 16-year-old murderer from Salem, Massachusetts. That is what a federal prosecutor wants you to think. After all, nineteen men are found hung on trees outside her family's circus in Northern California.
But the circus is a front for the Underground Railroad. The dead men were supposedly efficient bounty hunters trying to recapture escaped slaves working at the circus. The federal prosecutor doesn't care.
A grand jury indicts Amber for the nineteen murders. She flees and tries to hide out as a nun in a San Francisco Catholic Church. Is Amber a cold-blooded murderer like they say or a guiltless decoy for powerful unseen forces?