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by Brenda M. Spalding (Author)
Some histories refuse to stay buried.
When history teacher Gabby Rivera relocates to a quiet Florida town, she expects a fresh start after her mother's death-not a house staring straight across from a state park that makes her feel watched. But Manatee Springs isn't just land. It's the forgotten site of Angola, a maroon settlement destroyed in 1821 and erased from official records.
As Gabby begins to feel an unexplainable pull toward the park, she uncovers fragments of a story no one wants told-names missing from maps, warnings passed down in whispers, and a legendary escape route known as the Saltwater Railroad, where enslaved people fled south by water to freedom. The deeper she digs, the stronger the resistance becomes. School officials urge silence. County leaders close ranks. And something older-something tied to the land itself-watches, waits, and remembers.
With her husband Eric caught in the fallout and pressure mounting to stop, Gabby must decide how far she's willing to go to speak the names of the dead. Because some truths don't want to be studied quietly. They want to be heard.
A haunting, historically grounded novel of memory, resistance, and the cost of telling the truth-where the past is not gone, and silence is the most dangerous force of all.
The water remembers.
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by Brenda M. Spalding (Author)
Some histories refuse to stay buried.
When history teacher Gabby Rivera relocates to a quiet Florida town, she expects a fresh start after her mother's death-not a house staring straight across from a state park that makes her feel watched. But Manatee Springs isn't just land. It's the forgotten site of Angola, a maroon settlement destroyed in 1821 and erased from official records.
As Gabby begins to feel an unexplainable pull toward the park, she uncovers fragments of a story no one wants told-names missing from maps, warnings passed down in whispers, and a legendary escape route known as the Saltwater Railroad, where enslaved people fled south by water to freedom. The deeper she digs, the stronger the resistance becomes. School officials urge silence. County leaders close ranks. And something older-something tied to the land itself-watches, waits, and remembers.
With her husband Eric caught in the fallout and pressure mounting to stop, Gabby must decide how far she's willing to go to speak the names of the dead. Because some truths don't want to be studied quietly. They want to be heard.
A haunting, historically grounded novel of memory, resistance, and the cost of telling the truth-where the past is not gone, and silence is the most dangerous force of all.
The water remembers.
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