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The Bleeding Shack
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 24 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Boston, 1850s. The Worsham family home hums with music, light, and promise as Judge Daniel Worsham prepares to announce his daughter Sally's engagement. It seems her life is set on a clear, golden path, until a telegram arrives from Virginia.
Summoned to Magnolia Plantation to say farewell to a dying patriarch and settle the estate, the family is drawn back into a world Daniel tried to leave behind, a land built on enslaved labor, fear, and silence. What begins as a necessary journey of duty quickly becomes a moral reckoning.
At Magnolia, beauty and brutality live side by side. Long-buried family secrets rise to the surface. Sally, raised in comfort and protected from the worst of the South, is forced to confront the truth about her family's wealth, her father's past, and the lives of the people whose freedom now hangs in the balance.
As tensions build and loyalties are tested, the Worshams must choose: preserve a legacy of power and silence, or risk everything to do what is right.
A sweeping, emotionally rich historical novel about conscience, courage, and the cost of freedom.
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