Into the Fire

Natalie Moss

ISBN 10: 163183424X / ISBN 13: 9781631834240

Published by BookLogix Inc, 2023

About this Item

In this courageous and compelling . essential and critically important book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America. A Washington Post Noteworthy Book An Amazon Best Book of the Month Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail on suspicion of raping a white woman--only for the suspect to die the next day during an escape attempt. It was a tale straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird, with her grandfather as the tragic hero. This story, however, hid a dark truth. Years later, as a rising scholar of white supremacy, Hale revisited the story about her grandfather and Versie Johnson, the man who died in his custody. The more she learned about what had happened that day, the less sense she could make of her family's version of events. With the support of a Carnegie fellowship, she immersed herself in the investigation. What she discovered would upend everything she thought she knew about her family, the tragedy, and this haunted strip of the South--because Johnson's death, she found, was actually a lynching. But guilt did not lie with a faceless mob. A story of obsession, injustice, and the ties that bind, In the Pines casts an unsparing eye over this intimate terrain, driven by a deep desire to set straight the historical record and to understand and subvert white racism, along with its structures, costs, and consequences--and the lies that sustain it.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Into the Fire
• Publisher: BookLogix Inc
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 163183424X
• ISBN 13: 9781631834240
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Against all odds, Guinevere never backs down. Despite the death of her mother and father,

she manages to eke out a living, working as a barmaid at the local tavern. However, in a land ruled by an iron fist, Guinevere and her twin sister, Gwendolyn, struggle to make ends meet.

Her peaceful, if not mundane, life takes a turn when Guinevere and Gwendolyn become the sudden targets of the corrupt King Firon. Everything changes when he barges into her house, demanding the spellbook of a long-dead coven, and kidnaps her twin.

Ever the loyal sister, Guinevere and her childhood friend, Gelic, embark on a rescue mission. But her path quickly becomes more treacherous than she could've imagined, fraught with dark magic, dragons, and betrayal . . . and rebellion looming.

Join Guinevere as she embarks on her trial by fire.

About the Author

Natalie Moss graduated from the University of Georgia with a BA in anthropology, a BS in geology, and a minor in biology. She is currently pursuing her MSc in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, and her MPhil in Biological Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge as a 2023 Marshall Scholar. When she wrote Into the Fire, she liked to imagine herself as a fearless witch toppling a monarchy. In reality, she was usually sitting in the dark, letting the light of a laptop screen reflect off her braces, as she redid her not-so-stylish side braid. She enjoys dogs and thunderstorms, and other things that don't mix. She loves to hike, travel, play softball, listen to old music, and read, especially when a morally-grey female protagonist is involved.