A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we’ve include race relations.

Some bodies won’t stay buried.

Some stories have to be told.

When seventeen-year-old Rowan Run after finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she’s no proven fact that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries on the subject of the present and the past.

Nearly a hundred years previously, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. Within a country rife with assault against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and encounter his internal demons to carry out what’s right the night time Tulsa burns.

Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham’s lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises essential questions about the complex state folks race relations–both yesterday and today.