MAGNOLIA ROOTED, a Southern Gothic Novellete

The truth is buried deep. The roots remember everything.

Jurnee Daniels came to Southern University for a fresh start-a chance to breathe, to slip out from under her family's strict rules of respectability, and finally chase her dream of becoming a world-renowned journalist. But the Mississippi air, heavy with heat and haunted history, carries something more than Southern hospitality.

Beneath the manicured magnolia trees, something ancient is stirring-something tied to a history the university has tried to pave over.

When Jurnee's first assignment for the student paper leads her to Ms. Oleta, a quiet cafeteria worker with secrets older than the school itself, she uncovers a chilling find.

A key.

A journal.

A legacy that refuses to die.

Suddenly, Jurnee isn't just a student searching for her place in the world-she's the next chosen link in a buried chain of resistance. And the past is done waiting.

Now she must decide: walk away and pretend she saw nothing... or risk everything to face what's been festering beneath the magnolias for generations.

The ground is waking. The dead remember. And Jurnee's story is only just beginning.

Buy Magnolia Rooted today and uncover the history they tried to bury.