Virginia Dale is the author of Rich White Americans, winner of the Irwin Best Fiction Award. The feature film that she wrote and produced, Touch of the Devil, was recently screened at film festivals in New York City and Stockholm, Sweden. She attended the University of Santa Barbara where she lives and teaches English. She has written all of her life, starting as a child to communicate with her father when he had sea duty, and who encouraged her career as an author. The following quotes by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. summarize the thrust of the novel.

"With malice toward none, with charity for all..." Abraham Lincoln.

"We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt," Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I'm just a simple poet who loved your novel of justice triumphing over the Ku Klux Klan. The secret slave graveyard with its ghosts blew me away." Marvinlouis Dorsey, author of Masquerades.

Two rival West Virginia senators fight for their ideals while their wives, both of Other origins, add to the fray. Ghosts appear at a secret slave graveyard to right never forgotten wrongs. A beautiful runaway teen weaves the story together.