Published in 1996, this book is just too problematic for 21st century audiences. You have voodoo curses, a heroine taken as a "free woman of color" when she time travels from the present to land in the middle of a Quadroon Ball in New Orleans, plantation owners and slaves and jealous siblings and evil spouses and people returning from the grave and...yeah, it's all a bit too much and a bit too cringey. And the heroine is a huge fan of GWTW. Oh, boy.

Hill has a lot of other enjoyable books that are less problematic than this one. Simply put, it hasn't aged well. So find one of those others instead.