FREEDOM COME

<p><strong>FREEDOM COME</strong><br><em>By Walter T. Byrd Jr.</em></p><p><em>They tried to break their bodies.</em><br><em>They failed to silence their souls.</em></p><p>In the blood-soaked cane fields of 18th-century Louisiana the Toussaint family is torn from their homeland and cast into the brutal machinery of slavery. But what the slavers never expected was fire hidden in flesh-and memory sharper than any lash.</p><p>Olivier Toussaint a young man chained for his mind and punished for his spirit dares to defy the empire built on Black suffering. Alongside his fierce sister Élise the gifted child Camille and a rising tide of rebels he ignites a revolution born not of politics-but of vengeance love and ancestral power.</p><p>From the belly of slave ships to the heart of burning plantations <em>Freedom Come</em> is a searing tale of resistance rage and the sacred right to remember. Gritty poetic and devastatingly human this is not just a novel-it's a reckoning.</p><p><strong>For fans of Colson Whitehead Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler-this is the story they never wanted told.</strong></p>