A Persistent Echo

<p><strong>Kaufman is a fantastic writer with a distinctive poetic touch... It will be the rare reader who will not be moved by this soulful poignant novel. -<em>KIRKUS REVIEWS</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A dying man. A buried injustice. And a mystery falling from the sky.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In 1897 as reports of mysterious airships spread across Texas dying professor August Simms arrives in the small town of Rhome chasing one final purpose. Fifteen years earlier he lost his wife there-on the same night an innocent Black man was lynched.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Now as strange lights fill the sky and whispers of the unexplained grow louder August begins to uncover a truth the town has tried to forget. But the past isn't finished.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When new threats emerge and violence begins to stir again August is forced to choose: spend his final days in peace-or risk everything to confront a legacy of injustice that refuses to stay buried.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Set against the backdrop of America's first UFO wave </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A Persistent Echo</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a haunting historical mystery about courage truth and the cost of looking away.</span></p>