What the Levee Said

In a town where whispers can seal your fate, one girl dares to unearth theburied truth.Chantal Perrier, a precocious and audacious twelve-year-old, feels the shadowsof her mother's unexplained disappearance loom large over her life in Belmont,Louisiana. Born into a world of untold secrets and racial divides, shechannels her defiance into a relentless pursuit of truth, determined tounravel the mysteries that have haunted her family for generations.Raised in her family's sprawling but dilapidated estate, Chantal has hermother's defiance and her father's gambler's mind. She's brilliant, blunt, andfar too curious for a town built on silence.As Chantal delves deeper into the dark underbelly of the Leopard Society, aclandestine group that has woven itself into the fabric of Belmont and thesurrounding region, she uncovers evidence of corruption, deception, and alegacy of injustice that reaches back to a devastating flood. But with dangerlurking in the shadows and powerful families eager to silence her, Chantalmust race against time to expose the truth before it claims more lives. Maybeeven her own.Some floods aren't acts of God. Some disappearances aren't accidents. And thelevee? The levee always talks—if you're brave enough to listen.