<p>"If this whole series existed right now, I''d tear through it to the exclusion of everything else in my life." <b><i>-Teen Librarian Toolbox</i></b><br><br>The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago.<br><br><b>Olivia</b>, the beautiful eldest Davenport daughter, is ready to do her duty and marry. . . until charismatic civil rights leader Washington DeWight sweeps into town and sparks fly.<br><br>Her younger sister, <b>Helen</b>, is more interested in fixing cars than falling in love-unless it''s with her sister''s betrothed.<br><br><b>Amy-Rose</b>, childhood-friend-turned-maid to the Davenport sisters, dreams of opening her own business-and marrying the one man she could never be with, Olivia and Helen''s brother, John. But Olivia''s best friend, <b>Ruby</b>, also has her sig