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Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites listeners to breathe deeply and return to that “carefree” season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to Afrobeats and jazz music, and cooling off in the Swimmobile, those sun-drenched memories were often clouded by racism for the Detroiters in this evocative anthology.

I was raised in the dark, sharpened into a weapon, and sent into the mortal world to secure my coven's future. The Southern Kingdom holds secrets, and I will uncover them. But it holds my past—Cage, the man who slaughtered my mother, now stands as the King's most trusted mage. Stronger. Colder. Alive. She was supposed to be dead. A ghost from an old life. But Millicent walks these halls, her power coiled like a snake beneath her skin. She is everything I was warned about—ruthless, dangerous, a disciple of a monster.

Weaving stories of walking through the fires of trauma, adversity, and poverty, while showing that we all are connected by our human experiences. We are, if nothing else, all a culmination of one another's stories, after all. We're all humans who have the audacity to heal.

Using my story of surviving childhood trafficking to rich doctors (and other wealthy members of rural WV) and how it led to marrying a psychopath to educate others about the dangers of unresolved childhood trauma is a passion of mine. As the great, great, great, great granddaughter of Devil Anse Hatfield of WV (of the infamous Hatfield and McCoy's feud), I not only inherited immense resilience, but also a plethora of generational trauma. Through storytelling medicine, I'll share with you the details of my personal story in an effort to educate and disrupt the cycle of child trafficking. I'll ...