Power pays for anything.
What she will do to get it may just cost her everything.
When Madam Victoria, the most hated Negro woman in Georgia, becomes the owner of the Delaney Plantation, every man east of the Mississippi is lining up to take it off her hands, starting with her deceitful business partner.
Despite a daughter who despises her and a son-in-law who sticks around like a bad infection, Victoria Delaney is steadfast in seeing her family thrive. However, her successful reign is tested by envious men, Mother Nature and a swarm of slaves she's left scorned.
So begins the deeply, disturbing Antebellum chronicle of a Negro woman's struggle with secrets, slavery and sexism. The inhabitants of the Delaney Plantation will soon learn
broken strings play only the song of sorrow.