The Salt of Our Blood

Nia Williston came home to bury her father. Someone intends to bury the truth with him.

After three years of estrangement, Nia returns to South Carolina's Lowcountry believing Elijah's death will be the hardest thing she has to face. Then his attorney hands her a file filled with old deeds, missing names, and evidence of land stolen from Black families-including her own.

Elijah was keeping more than family secrets. He was investigating the Circle, a powerful network whose influence reaches from church pews to waterfront developments. Now another man is dead, records are disappearing, and documents bearing Nia's signature promise her a fortune she never agreed to accept.

Her husband, Marcus, insists he wants to protect her. But every discovery exposes another conversation he concealed. When Isaiah Reed, the man she once loved, returns to help unravel the accounts, their rekindled desire threatens a marriage already strained by lies.

Meanwhile, machinery approaches the ancestral burial ground. Someone is willing to erase the graves-and the family connections they preserve-before Nia can understand what her inheritance really means.

To discover what happened aboard her father's fishing boat, Nia must follow the money into the lives of the people she trusts most. What she finds could cost her marriage, her place in the family, and her life.

Set among salt marshes, ancestral graves, and churches where faith and power share the same pulpit, The Salt of Our Blood is an adult Southern suspense novel about stolen land, forbidden desire, and the price of keeping a family together through silence.

Book One of a continuing story. Contains mature themes, sensuality, and violence.