Love Pink Lucy

This is the book I'll start reading tonight. This is from the back of the book.

A young black man in the South shortly after the War Between the States, Jake strikes out on his own, hoping to outrun his master and the consequences of an angry deed.
Carrrying a grudge and his guilty secret. Jake heads north on a quest to find freedom and the father he has long resented. On the way, he discovers not only his long-lost papa but two intriguing young women as well, one of them a former slave like himself.
Jake soon falls in love with a girl who has secrets of her own. But before she can answer his proposal, danger cames calling....