Night Song
Night Song\xa0by Beverly Jenkins - this is the first book by the First Lady of African American Romance, from 1994.\xa0 Cara is a schoolmarm.\xa0 Chase is a Buffalo Soldier.\xa0 They do it.\xa0 A lot.\xa0 All over the house, y'all.\xa0 All over the house.\xa0 Also there are some murders.
There is no sexual assault in the present of this book; however, several characters tell the traumatic stories of their pasts under slavery and one does include rape.\xa0 There's also a romance novel-y rape threat by the villain but it doesn't actually happen, and an equally romance novel-y miscarriage (no vivid details.)