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Rat Poison: A Novella

Mississippi, August 1859. The cook poured the coffee at six-fifteen. By six-thirty she was gone, and the planter’s family was convulsing on the dining room floor.

Mary measured the arsenic the way she measured salt. She has her reasons. She does not intend to explain them to anyone — least of all to Sheriff Booker, the methodical lawman riding...

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Still Waters

A Novella

It's 1980. And there's a church steeple at the bottom of Lake Lanier.

Sixteen-year-old Keisha Montgomery sees it her first night at the lake house — straight lines where straight lines shouldn't be, sixty yards from the dock, twenty feet down. Her parents say it's a summer house. Her father, a civil rights attorney, says he's here for work.

Then...

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Onward Christian Soldiers: A Novel of Resistance

The Kongo, 1699. She is fifteen, and her mind will not sit still.
Beatriz was supposed to be a healer. Her mother’s lineage. Her aunt’s teaching. The
nganga schools her family sent her to when her gifts first showed. She failed at all of it — not for lack of effort but because her mind refused to conform.
Then a saint began speaking to her.
He...

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Growing up, I didn't know any stories from anywhere on the African continent, let alone anything tied to the Black experience in Amerca. Onward Christian Soldiers: A Novel of...

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They Buried the Evidence. You Dug It Up! Still Waters hit #1 on Amazon this

Still Waters hit #1 on Amazon this week in two categories: YA Ghost Stories and YA 20th Century Historical Fiction.

I wrote this book because nobody taught me the story of...