Steele Secrets

When Mary Steele mysteriously finds herself in an old cemetery down the road from her house in a tiny mountain town, she's not concerned. She's not even frightened when a ghost named Moses approaches her or when she has to stand-off against a bulldozer. But when her inquiries into the history of the cemetery and the people buried there begin to draw out the worst in the members of her community, Mary begins to be afraid. Will she be able to recover history while keeping the people she loves safe? A story of American history and racism, slavery and family, and the way mystery can lead us to healing. This story, while completely fictional, is based on real life events where cemeteries have been destroyed - or under threat - because people do not know who is buried in them or do not care. Whether the cemeteries are in urban neighborhoods or in rural countryside, many slave cemeteries in particular and African American cemeteries in specific are under threat, and it was these threats that led Cumbo-Floyd to this novel.