Book One: Where the Water Holds Weight. Book Two: Mother Bone

By: TJ Buck

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Where the Water Holds Weight
Claire Redmond went under once, and the lake never let go. Marked with a scar and a hunger she cannot name, she returns to Blackwater when her father disappears, only to find herself drawn back to the water and the three sisters who rule beneath it: Selene, Lilith, and Celeste, the youngest.
In the struggle for power and survival, it is Celeste who turns against her elder sisters, killing Selene and Lilith in the depths, and reshaping the legacy of the lake forever.
Mother Bone
In 1884, a freed woman and healer was accused of witchcraft, erased from the records, and set ablaze. No trial, no grave, only whispers of her name: Mother Bone. A century later, her story resurfaces in ledgers, ash, and silence. As Claire and Celeste trace her shadow through history, they discover that inheritance is not only blood but marrow, and that some stories refuse to stay buried.
Together these two novels form a cycle of folk horror and magical realism, where the supernatural is not spectacle but inheritance, and the past presses against the present with marrow-deep insistence.
For readers of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Jesmyn Ward, Gabino Iglesias, and Toni Morrison, this haunting dual novel explores love and grief, memory and silence, and the dangerous weight of what a town refuses to speak aloud.