Salted with Fire

On a sweltering Mississippi farm in 1963, five women gather for what should be another summer of porch talk and pickling. But when fourteen-year-old Ann begins to unravel the secrets buried in the land-lynchings, silence, betrayal-she finds kinship not in her own bloodline, but in Irene, the quiet housekeeper who raised her like a daughter.As bees grow restless and old ghosts stir beneath the soil, Ann uncovers a fire inside her that demands to be fed. What begins as a visit becomes a reckoning, and what stands at the end is not just a girl-but a woman who knows what must burn to keep what matters alive.About the Author:Born in New Orleans, Romer Shaw is a historical fiction writer. He is considered a leader in the modern Southern Gothic Revival. Having lived, worked, and traveled extensively throughout the American Deep South and Latin America, his work primarily focuses on two areas: the Mississippi Delta in the 1960s, and the relationship between the United States and Latin America and the effect American Imperialism has had on those countries. He is deeply passionate about Anthropology and American-Southern History. His favorite backdrop for any novel is the Mississippi Delta, the area between Memphis and New Orleans.