Daughter of the Merciful Deep

✍ Scribed by Leslye Penelope

• Book ID: 115178159
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780316378222

✦ Synopsis

**A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South. **
" Our home began, as all things do, with a wish."
Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve years later, she's found a haven in the all-Black town of Awenasa. But the construction of a dam promises to wash her home under the waters of the new lake.
Jane will do anything to save the community that sheltered her. So, when a man with uncanny abilities arrives in town asking strange questions, she wonders if he might be the key. But as the stranger hints at gods and ancestral magic, Jane is captivated by a bigger mystery. She knows this man. Only the last time she saw him, he was dead. His body laid to rest in a rushing...