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Dorothea Hubble Bonneau
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Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
Once in a Blood Moon
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Audiobook of Once in a Blood Moon - narrated by Trei Taylor
HEAVEN’S HILL PLANTATION, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia is the daughter of a wealthy African-American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. But, balancing the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world is a treacherous undertaking. One misstep could ruin a young woman’s prospects forever.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Alexandra yearns to establish her own place in the world as an accomplished violinist. She assumes her talent and her family’s wealth will pave her way to success—however, her life becomes a nightmare when her mother dies and her father is murdered by bigoted officials eager to seize Heaven’s Hill for their own.
Alexandra and her little brother, Jimi, heirs to Heaven’s Hill, have targets on their backs. They are forced to flee for their lives and for their freedom.
What the future holds is uncertain. Sometimes fate has its own plans.
Seekers from Zantaparon
“You are to recover the formula with an absence of violence or malice.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
You are to use love to dispel fear. You are to remain true to your quest in the face of danger and deprivation.”
With these instructions, sixteen-year-old Mary Delawees is thrust into the bizarre world of Ra, where she must retrieve the ozone repair formula that will save her ancestral planet, Earth. Her journey leads her through worlds beyond her imagining, and teaches her the true meaning of love and personal power.
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