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It’s 1912. America is the land of Jim Crow, of lynchings and segregation.  And a young white society woman has just discovered that the grandfather she barely knows may be black.

She has a family. She has a child. She can’t be black. She doesn’t know how.

She follows her grandfather onto the newest, safest, biggest ship in the world, to learn the truth—the right truth, the one that will save her family.

But after the iceberg, she finds the truth is more complicated than black and white.  And more daring, more loving, and far more dangerous...

Preorder--publication date April 15, 2020
400 pages. Trade paper, $15.99  HC $26.99 ePub and MOBI $2.99
Preorder through Ingram 
  • trade paper, 9781951636036   at your local independent bookstore
  • hardbound (digital cloth) 9781951636111 at your local independent bookstore
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  • Kindle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z9Z66PB
All the Reisden and Perdita mysteries
 
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The Vanished Child --"Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why."
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Available for preorder; published January 15, 2020

402 pages. Trade paper, $15.99  ePub and MOBI $2.99
  • Order trade paper through Ingram-9781951636005--or your local independent bookstore
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  • Kindle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZDJQNBN
 
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The Knowledge of Water--Love, art, murder, the Mona Lisa--and Paris is drowning.
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Available for preorder; published February 15, 2020

430 pages. Trade paper, $15.99  ePub and MOBI $2.99
  • Preorder trade paper through Ingram--9781951636012--or your local independent bookstore
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  • Kindle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZDJSWYX

 
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A Citizen of the Country - New Director’s Cut Edition
A cursed film, a cursed family; madness, witchcraft, and the shadows of war.
Available for preorder; published March 15, 2020

470 pages. Trade paper, $16.99  ePub and MOBI $2.99
  • Preorder trade paper through Ingram--9781951636029--or your local independent bookstore
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  • Kindle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z9Y5WQC


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