Fictional stories about historical places and events
The Voices We Carry
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Carmen returns to her mother’s house in Key West after decades of running, emotionally numb, estranged from her daughter, abandoning her writing. She plans to sell the inherited home to developers. But as she sorts through her mother’s archives, the spirits of six ancestors begin appearing on the porch, each demanding to be witnessed and remembered.
Through their stories spanning 160 years—from a Bahamian immigrant to an institutionalized grandmother—Carmen recognizes herself: her numbness, her distance, her silence are inherited trauma, passed down through generations as survival mechanisms that protect no one.
When a hurricane forces a reckoning between past and present, Carmen makes a choice: break the family’s pattern of silence or let it destroy the next generation.
The Voices We Carry is a haunting, multigenerational story about how speaking truth—messy, imperfect, human truth—can heal what silence has broken.
THE STORYTELLER OF LOSTMANS RIVER
Coming in November 2026.
Some men are impossible to know—and Richard Edward Hamilton was one of them.
Born enslaved in 1840s Georgia, Richard spent over a century reinventing himself across the American frontier, leaving behind a trail of contradictory stories that historians still cannot untangle. Was he the son of a plantation owner or a man who invented that claim? Did he serve as a decorated soldier or commit pension fraud? Was he a devoted family man or a bigamist who abandoned his first wife? The answer, it seems, depends on who was asking—and what Richard needed them to believe.
The Storyteller of Lostmans River follows Richard’s impossible life through two intertwined timelines. In 1932, journalist Frances Marsh arrives in Florida’s remote Ten Thousand Islands to interview the legendary centenarian for a Federal Writers’ Project. As Richard spins increasingly contradictory tales of his past, Frances discovers evidence that undermines nearly every claim he makes. Yet the more she investigates, the more she realizes that Richard’s unreliability isn’t a flaw in his story—it is the story.
Through Frances’ growing skepticism and Richard’s shifting accounts, this novel explores how identity is constructed, how survival demands reinvention, and whether truth matters when a life has been lived as authentically as Richard lived his—constantly, impossibly, unforgettably. In the Everglades’ shifting waters and hidden channels, one man’s refusal to be defined becomes a meditation on the nature of history itself.
A novel about a man who was everything and nothing. A story about stories. A life that refuses to be pinned down.
Even Now, I Am Here
Coming in 2027
The woman Carmen Holland remembers as beloved, gentle, graceful, the heart of her family, was erased long before she died.
When Carmen discovers her grandmother Bella’s hidden journal decades after her death, she uncovers a devastating secret: in 1948, Bella was committed to Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee for postpartum depression. There, she endured years of electroshock treatments and institutional abuse that fractured her sense of self. When she finally returned home, she was “cured”, medicated into compliance, trained never to speak of her pain, performing the role of the perfect wife and mother while the real Bella remained locked away.
Through Bella’s raw, unflinching journal entries and Carmen’s present-day investigation, Even Now, I Am Here traces how trauma travels through families, how institutions harm in the name of healing, and how silence becomes a form of survival. But Carmen must now decide: honor her grandmother’s buried truth, or protect the family’s carefully constructed mythology?
Some stories demand to be told. Some truths refuse to stay buried.
She Crossed the Waters
Coming in 2027
She Crossed the Waters tells the story of a young Irish woman who flees from the law and finds herself on an island in the Bahamas after her ship to America sinks. She is taken in by a family of wreckers: James, a young man who is in love with Hannah, tries to protect her from his overbearing mother, Hetty, a former slave who now owns a small plantation and treats Hannah like a slave. Hannah searches for ways to make and save money to get to America. While slave uprisings become more prevalent, fear pervades the island, and Hannah must make a decision: stay where she is or find the courage to start her life over once again.
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