It was the third week in June, and Billy Joe knew if he was ever going to tell Edna Lee how he felt about her, he had to do it soon. But how and when—and more frightening for him, would she reject him? Other than kindness, she had given him no clue how she felt, which, oddly enough, made him even more attracted to her. When Jane Henshaw, a naïve, young Quaker, elopes with John McCluskey, a Southern gentleman, she never imagined she would become the sole owner of a slave plantation in the Mississippi Delta—something completely foreign to her upbringing. A century later, Bill Joe Farmer finds himself sentenced to live there for six months after burning a cross on the lawn of one of his Black teammates. What he learns about the residents and about himself gives him a unique perspective, one that starts him on a path of acceptance. "When Fate and Justice Meet" is a story of how one woman changes the course of hundreds of lives and how these events have an impact almost one hundred years later.
