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Tidewrack
The Unsettling at Roanoke · DG Brashears
"The world is only quiet until it knows your name."
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It is 1587. The height of English ambition and confidence. Jane Jones boards a ship for the New World as the young daughter of the colony's surgeon, a woman whose hands know medicine and whose eyes see more than most people find comfortable. She leaves with her father's instruments and more curiosity than the voyage can safely hold. What she finds is a continent that has already been named, already been lived in, already been bled over... and a colony straining to convince itself otherwise.
When the settlement fractures, Jane becomes a witness in the margins. She loses belonging, then trust, then the very identity England assigned her. What the land demands is not endurance but reckoning, a confrontation with every certainty her homeland stitched into her, every assumption she carried across the water without knowing she held it. What emerges, slowly, is someone England has no claim on.
Tidewrack is a novel about one of the most enduring mysteries in human history. The vanishing of a community of people who believed in the promise of progress and safety... told through the eyes of the one among them who saw more than was intended.
For Readers of
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"The truth serves no one if it prevents us from landing safely." White met Manteo's eyes and held them. "You said yourself, 'English promises and English hunger.' Would you have me add English panic to that accounting?" - Governor John White
"She has been carrying a name that was never hers. Living inside a story that was written for her by hands she never consented to hold the pen." - Jane Jones
— Tidewrack, DG Brashears
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The first english colony lands at roanoke
July 22
On July 22, 1587, the first English civilian colony, bound for the Chesapeake area, are suddenly forced ashore on the island of Roanoke that would swallow them whole. Four hundred and thirty-nine years later, Tidewrack gives voice to one of the people history forgot to name.
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