In this second epic novel of bestselling The Door of No Return  trilogy, we meet Charlie, Kofi's granddaughter, who is living in the Jim  Crow South.
In this second riveting novel of the bestselling The Door of No  Return trilogy, set 60 years later, twelve-year-old Charlie lives with her  family including her grandfather Kofi in a small,  segregated town in Virginia. She has a happy childhood, which includes  Sunday church picnics, baseball games with her best friend Willie Green, and listening to her grandfather tell her stories of Africa. But it is  suddenly torn apart when a racist incident escalates.