Bloodmoon

BLOODMOON: THE BOOK OF LUCIUS
By Phoenix WashingtonSome histories are written in ink. Others are buried beneath the water.In the shadowed landscapes of St. James Parish, Louisiana, the past refuses to stay buried. Land holds memory. Names carry the weight of generations. And beneath the surface of a community's carefully preserved history lies a record that powerful people would rather leave untouched. As the lives of Isaiah, Renata, Odalie, and others intersect with the forces shaping their community, old wounds and buried truths begin to surface. The boundaries between memory and evidence, witness and institution, become increasingly difficult to ignore. Against a Southern Gothic landscape of still water, ancestral shadows, and histories rewritten by those who hold power, BLOODMOON: THE BOOK OF LUCIUS explores what happens when the official record fails to tell the whole story-and when the people left outside that record refuse to disappear.Spanning generations of conflict, loss, institutional power, and contested memory, this haunting novel asks a question that reaches far beyond Louisiana:Who gets remembered, who gets erased, and who has the power to decide?Dark, atmospheric, and deeply concerned with the cost of silence, BLOODMOON: THE BOOK OF LUCIUS is a story about the past that survives beneath the surface-and the truth that keeps rising.The water remembers. The record remains. The names will not stay buried.