The Gift was never Gentle

The Gift was never Gentle

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WpMetadataNoticeLast published Mon, Apr 6, 2026
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Fiction
Culture and Identity
Black
Indigenous
Savannah is rotting from the inside. Bodies are turning up wrong-fused to concrete, marked with symbols older than the city itself. Truly Lowe, a Crime Scene Investigator, who doesn't believe in the hoodoo she was raised around, keeps finding herself at the center of it all. Her family descends from the Bone Wardens of Khepra, an ancestral line sworn to keep evil spirits and restless dead buried. Her mother broke under the gift. Now it's waking in Truly. And The city is staring to wake up....
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