In Selma, the blood-red clay holds its dead tight, and the shadow of the Edmund Pettus Bridge falls long and cold over secrets far older than the Civil Rights struggle. Beneath the city's celebrated history of defiance, a deeper, more desperate rebellion lies buried—a forgotten uprising of Black activists who dared to demand their freedom and were answered with execution. They were buried in chains, their rage and sorrow seeping into the very soil.
Now, historical preservationist Willa Mae is hired to restore an antebellum hotel, but it’s the land itself that calls to her. At twilight, she hears the phantom rattle of chains on the river breeze and feels the suffocating weight of an injustice that refuses to be forgotten. These are not gentle spirits; they are a chorus of the damned, their collective agony poisoning the ground.
As Willa Mae uncovers the story of the uprising, she learns the spirits cannot rest until their chains are broken and their story is screamed from the rooftops. But the city's most powerful family, whose ancestors crushed the rebellion, have spent generations ensuring this chapter of Selma's history remains unwritten. They see Willa Mae not as a restorer, but as a threat, and will stop at nothing to keep their foundational sins buried. Willa Mae must find the unhallowed ground where the revolutionaries lie before she is silenced and becomes another one of Selma's forgotten ghosts.
Alabama Gothic is a new series by the Queen of Southern Gothic, M. L. Bullock. Each book is a trilogy! The books included in this series:
Alabama Gothic: Cahawba
Alabama Gothic: Marion
Alabama Gothic: Selma
Alabama Gothic: Mobile
Now, historical preservationist Willa Mae is hired to restore an antebellum hotel, but it’s the land itself that calls to her. At twilight, she hears the phantom rattle of chains on the river breeze and feels the suffocating weight of an injustice that refuses to be forgotten. These are not gentle spirits; they are a chorus of the damned, their collective agony poisoning the ground.
As Willa Mae uncovers the story of the uprising, she learns the spirits cannot rest until their chains are broken and their story is screamed from the rooftops. But the city's most powerful family, whose ancestors crushed the rebellion, have spent generations ensuring this chapter of Selma's history remains unwritten. They see Willa Mae not as a restorer, but as a threat, and will stop at nothing to keep their foundational sins buried. Willa Mae must find the unhallowed ground where the revolutionaries lie before she is silenced and becomes another one of Selma's forgotten ghosts.
Alabama Gothic is a new series by the Queen of Southern Gothic, M. L. Bullock. Each book is a trilogy! The books included in this series:
Alabama Gothic: Cahawba
Alabama Gothic: Marion
Alabama Gothic: Selma
Alabama Gothic: Mobile
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