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In 1875 would someone in San Francisco have realised that the distinguished and wealthy Mrs de Fremery was born a slave? And that as a child she had been smuggled to the Netherlands by her father because her life was not safe in her native America?

Annejet van der Zijl's latest 'big' book, which includes her successful book week gift Leon & Juliette, is perhaps her most ambitious ever. This true story starts with adventurer Leon Herckenrath who lost his heart to the young slave Juliette in 1818 and follows their eldest daughter and her Dutch husband during their adventures in California at the time of the Goldrush. And how did their descendants fare, with their unusual heritage of enormous wealth and a black bloodline?
Fortune's children is a surprisingly timely family saga that spans two centuries and is about people who didn't let risk limit their lives or the color of their skin