Roots of the Shadow, Book
She was born on the night of a flood, and the spirits have been waiting for her ever since. Afi was seven when her uncle killed her father for a piece....
She was born on the night of a flood, and the spirits have been waiting for her ever since. Afi was seven when her uncle killed her father for a piece of land and sold the rest of her family into slavery. She was left behind with one warning: the ancestors never forget a debt. Years later, chains carry her across the ocean to a Louisiana plantation. There she cooks for the masters, hears the voices of the dead, and falls for the one man she must never love: Édouard, a planter’s son who is beginning to doubt everything his name stands for. Beneath a split oak, in the light of a full moon, their love grows. But someone is watching. And the ancestors are done waiting. Some debts are paid in blood.