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When the Reckoning Comes

When the Reckoning Comes

๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’€ ๐๐Ž๐Ž๐Š ๐“๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐Ÿ’€๐ŸŒฑ

Thank you @harperperennial and @bibliolifestyle for this #gifted book.

Is it too early to get excited about a ghost story!?!๐Ÿ‘ป๐Ÿ’€ Today is Friday the 13th, so its a perfect day to dive into a dark story.

If you are ready to dive into a spooky and haunting story, then you have got to grab a copy of ๐™’๐™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™๐™š๐™˜๐™ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™จ!

More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her past: from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends; from her old neighborhood; from the eerie Woodsman plantation rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves; from the terrifying memory of a ghost she saw that terrible day when a dare-gone-wrong almost got Jesseโ€”the boy she secretly lovedโ€”arrested for murder.

But now Mira is back in Kipsen to attend Celineโ€™s wedding at the plantation, which has been transformed into a lush vacation resort. Mira hopes to reconnect with her friends, and especially, Jesse, to finally tell him the truth about her feelings and the events of that devastating long-ago day.

But for all its fancy renovations, the Woodsman remains a monument to its oppressive racist history. The bar serves antebellum drinks, entertainments include horrifying reenactments, and the service staff is nearly all black. Yet the darkest elements of the plantationโ€™s past have been carefully erasedโ€”rumors that slaves were tortured mercilessly and that ghosts roam the lands, seeking vengeance on the descendants of those who tormented them, which includes most of the wedding guests.

As the weekend unfolds, Mira, Jesse, and Celine are forced to acknowledge their history together, and to save themselves from what is to come.

๐Ÿ’ฌ ๐ƒ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฉ?

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