Books like A light to my path by Lynn N. Austin

Harriet Jacobs' autobiographical narrative recounts her escape from slavery in North Carolina, her concealment in a hidden garret for seven years, and her eventual reunion with her children in the North.

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman tells the life story of a Black woman who lived 110 years, spanning from slavery to the civil rights era in the American South.

Pheby Brown, a once-promised freedom, finds herself trapped in Devil's Half Acre, a brutal jail where the enslaved are broken and tortured every day.

A mail‑order bride from the American West seeks revenge: Jenny Linden answers an ad to marry former prison guard Dan Tyler, intent on killing him, selling his ranch, and gaining wealth after her father’s death in a Confederate prison camp.

The final installment of Jan Karon’s beloved Mitford Years series, following the life and work of an Episcopalian clergy member in the fictional North Carolina town of Mitford.

During World War II, three lives in a Brooklyn apartment building collide as war reshapes their hearts and futures.

In post‑Civil War Kentucky, a young woman returns to her father’s plantation to find her mother was a slave and she is now a captive of creditors, sparking her quest for freedom.

The bondwoman's narrative is possibly the first novel written by a Black woman slave, offering a gripping autobiographical account that illuminates plantation life, slavery, and the quest for liberty in early America.

There's a magic in life...But Ria Sterling has yet to embrace it, because she considers her ability to predict death from merely touching a photograph a curse. She yearns to use her sight to save just one life. On the other hand, tough-talking detective Carrick Jones and his partner profess not to care about saving anyone. But they do need Ria's help in solving a case. Instead, she predicts that Carrick's partner will die. Soon. And when her vision proves true, Ria goes from psychic to prime suspect...The one thing she can't predict is her instant attraction to Carrick, a man who doesn't believe in the paranormal--only what his five senses tell him. But when danger threatens, Ria finally sees how to use her gift in a unique way. And to show Carrick the inexplicable power of a love where seeing really is believing...