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 Forsyth County, Georgia. In 1912, a white boy's lie set off a racial cleansing that drove out over a thousand Black residents and killed sixty-three people. The county buried the evidence twice — first with silence, then with a lake.

Keisha Montgomery is sixteen. She sees a church steeple at the bottom of Lake Lanier her first night at the summer house. Then a ghost named Mae appears on the dock. Mae has been waiting sixty-eight years for someone who would sit still long enough to listen.

I didn't set out to write a bestseller. I set out to make sure this story got told. The response this week has been humbling.

Still Waters is available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. Paperback coming soon. If you've read it, please consider leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads. Independent authors live and die by reviews, and yours makes a real difference.