THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Nea Anna Simone
THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS
Book Three of the Mignon Samuels Trilogy
Mignon Samuels returns to Devereaux Plantation-the place where her story, and her bloodline, began-carrying the weight of age, memory, and unfinished reckonings. A matriarch descended from midwives, herbalists, and root women, Mignon feels the pull of mortality tightening. On the haunted land that has always known her, the veil thins, and an unexpected ancestor steps forward, revealing truths that will forever alter the family's understanding of who they are-and where they come from.
At the same time, Madison Samuels is on the run. Hounded by a relentless journalist determined to unearth long-buried secrets, Madison seeks refuge at Devereaux, believing its isolation will protect her. Instead, she vanishes into the shadows of the old house, leaving fear and questions in her wake.
As Summer and Cody race to find her, history and catastrophe collide. Hurricane Katrina descends, turning roads into rivers and choices into matters of life and death. With floodwaters rising and time slipping away, the sisters must navigate a world where survival depends on instinct, faith, and the bonds they have tried to outrun.
To bring Madison home, Mignon must trust the ancestor who has found her, surrender to the wisdom of the land, and allow love-ancient, patient, and unyielding-to move through Devereaux once more.
The Substance of Things is a suspenseful, soul-deep conclusion to the Mignon Samuels Trilogy-a story of lineage and legacy, forgiveness and reckoning, and the enduring power of the land to remember, to break cycles, and to heal what was once thought lost.
