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What Cannot Be Taken: A Novelette

What Cannot Be Taken: A Novelette

Bernardez, Joseph

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798196382154
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Nyla Moss survives by staying quiet.
Working overnight shifts in Atlantic City, hiding bruises beneath long sleeves, and trapped inside a violent relationship, she believes survival is the only form of freedom left to her.

Then her grandmother dies.
What Lena Moss leaves behind is not money-but a hidden archive buried deep in the South Jersey marshlands containing generations of erased Afro-Indigenous history, stolen land records, coded baskets, and truths powerful men tried to destroy for decades.

As violence closes in and buried secrets surface, Nyla must decide whether to remain the woman shaped by fear-or become the woman her ancestors protected through memory, sacrifice, and survival.

Gritty, emotionally devastating, and impossible to forget, What Cannot Be Taken is a romantic literary thriller about abuse, identity, inheritance, and the kind of wealth no one can steal once a woman remembers who she is.

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