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When The Acacia Bleeds: A Novel of Buried Secrets and Inherited Silence
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Jeff Muff
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some secrets do not stay buried. They bleed through the soil of continents, through the silence of decades, until they find the one person brave enough or cursed enough to hear them.
When junior State Department analyst Zara Kimani is tasked with quietly closing the case of a retired American ambassador found dead in Washington's Rock Creek Park, she expects paperwork and protocol. What she finds instead is a sixty-year-old photograph that will dismantle everything she believes about her family, her country, and herself.
As two timelines converge: Washington DC in the present, colonial Kenya at its most dangerous turning point, Zara must confront a conspiracy that has shaped the fates of nations and silenced those who dared speak. She has forty-eight hours before powerful men ensure she joins them in silence.
Some histories do not want to be found. This one has been waiting sixty years.
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