When she grew up

the key to effectiveness lies in being switchable -- knowing when to be firm and direct and when to be flexible and accommodating

They had built their lives in this grand old house

causing cycles of bad choices and experiences

they believe

Kindred Mormon Converts When she grew upDana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or