Nightflyer
They say there is a fort in Spanish Florida where the runaways are not given back. They say if you reach it, you are free.
The year is 1738. S raphine has fled a South Carolina rice plantation into the low country alone, running for a place she has never seen and cannot prove exists. She can read anything made by hand - a wall, a boat, a lie - and tell you where it will hold and where it will break. The gift runs in the old blood, and it is the only thing she trusts.
She is not the only one running. What begins as one woman's flight becomes a journey of ten souls bound together on the dark water: a birth in a barn, a debt that can only be paid in the deep swamp, and a name kept when everything else has been taken. Because among her people there is a name the world is allowed to know - and a name that is never spoken aloud. The second is the one that keeps you from dying.
Set against the true history of Fort Mose, the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States, Nightflyer is a haunting novel of escape, chosen family, and the oldest freedom there is: a body up off the ground, and nobody's hand able to reach it.
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