Republic of Her Bones

<p>In an alternate timeline the Haitian Revolution of 1804 doesn't just succeed it sparks a global uprising. The enslaved armies of Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines not only free Haiti but sail to the American South where they ignite a domino rebellion across the plantations of the New World. By 1820 the United States fractures. The Southern states form the Confederation of Ash a brutal remnant desperately clinging to slavery while the North allies with a rising coalition of freed Black republics known collectively as The Bone Line a string of sovereign Black-led nations stretching from Mississippi to the Caribbean.</p><p>But peace is a lie. Forty years later in 1862 a war simmers once more.</p><p>The book follows Solène Moreau a cartographer's apprentice in the Republic of Her Bones a secretive nation that exists off every known map formed in the wreckage of a forgotten Louisiana city. Her mother vanished during a failed peace mission to the Ash Confederation and now Solène is chosen to carry the next message not a treaty but a stolen artifact:</p><p>As Solène journeys across borders she realizes this isn't just a war of nations - it's a war over who gets to decide what really happened.</p>