Author Description

Some legacies don't speak in words-they echo in dreams, rise through the roots of old trees, and wait in the silence for someone brave enough to listen. Still grieving the loss of her husband, Genevieve "Veve" Hébert retreats to a forgotten corner of South Louisiana after inheriting a crumbling Creole house on a bayou estate from a great-great aunt she never knew. But the house she steps into isn't empty. Spirits linger. Time warps. And the land itself-mysterious, unruly, and alive-feels like it's been waiting for her. Veve came seeking solitude. What she finds is a legacy of quiet power woven through generations of Acadian women-keepers of dreams, folk magic, and the sacred bond between the living and the dead. As she begins to uncover the truth hidden in dusty journals and whispered memories, a quiet, grounded man named Leo Faulkner arrives in her life-offering help with the house, and perhaps more than that. Together, Veve and Leo begin to unearth what was nearly lost: a lineage of healing, spiritual care, and the profound ancestral knowledge that refuses to be silenced. Inheritance of Silence is the first novel in the Bayou Born series-a lush, atmospheric Southern Gothic about grief, belonging, and the enduring pull of home, even when home feels like a ghost story.