Roots and Ruin

Available June 13, 2027

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Every family has a story it tells. And a story it kills to keep quiet.

Documentary filmmaker Nadia Banks returns to small-town Alabama for her aunt's funeral convinced the death was no accident. When she discovers that her beloved aunt died protecting a cache of documents proving their grandfather was a paid FBI informant who destroyed Black families during the civil rights era, Nadia forms a dangerous alliance with investigative journalist Isaiah Freeman, whose own grandfather was murdered because of that betrayal. As Nadia and Isaiah dig deeper into a conspiracy that spans sixty years, their growing love collides with a powerful family patriarch willing to kill again to keep the truth buried. To expose the lie at the heart of everything she was raised to believe, Nadia must risk her family, her safety, and the armor she's spent a lifetime building behind her camera lens.