内容简介：
From a Narrow Path is a rich blend of the historic past and the present, set in Americaas Mid-Atlantic, the Delmarva region. It is a story whispering throughout its pages with mystery. Set in a narrow area just inside Hansleyville, where Maryland borders Delaware, a 340-acre farm belongs to Ike Whitney and family. When Irma, the 13-year-old daughter of tenant-farmer Roy Mills, is raped and conceives a child, she conceals the identity of the rapist. She leaves her infant daughter Sarah with her parents and the secret goes with Irma. A parallel story is told about the aristocratic Hansley family dating back to Colonial America, and Laura Whitney, George Hansley and a Philadelphia mulatto seamstress. A prominent member of the Black community, Douglas Wright, is tortured after he assists a girl he loves with an abortion, and she dies. All appears doomed for young Caroline Harris and Carlton Wright. Romance links Althea Whitney and Italian widower Tony Damiano. Nevertheless, everywhere there are dark, dark secrets.