Forced Farewell

<p><strong>Forced Farewell</strong> is a lyrical and harrowing tale of exile survival and impossible love set during one of the darkest chapters of North American history-the Acadian Expulsion of 1755.</p><p>When British soldiers descend on the quiet Acadian village of Grand-Pré sixteen-year-old Adelaid's life is torn apart in a single afternoon. Families are wrenched from their land churches burned names erased. As her people are scattered to distant shores Adelaid is forced into a brutal march-her childhood behind her her future uncertain.</p><p>But when a strange rupture in time allows Adelaid brief glimpses into a world not her own she begins to question the boundaries between history memory and fate. In that liminal space she meets Zurie a girl unlike anyone she's ever known-fierce and impossibly real. Together they navigate the fragile edges of time and identity tethered by grief and an urgent sense of connection.</p><p>As war closes in and choices narrow Adelaid must decide whether to fight for her people's forgotten future or surrender to the tides of history. Either way a farewell is coming-forced or chosen permanent or not.</p>