Children of the River Mounds

Before the world was changed, it learned to forget.

Long before empires crossed oceans, before history was written by conquerors, the people of the river built their lives from earth, water, and memory. They raised mounds to honor their dead. They believed the land would hold what they buried.

They were wrong.

When a young girl named Sani begins to hear what the river and the earth are trying to say, she becomes a witness to something her people have spent generations refusing to face. What was sealed away beneath ritual and tradition is not gone—it is growing. Hunger, grief, and fear have been buried so carefully they have learned how to survive underground.

As violence breaks open the past, Sani is forced to leave her home and walk a land shaped by cycles of rise and collapse. Moving between villages, tribes, and generations, she carries no prophecy, no power to save anyone—only the truth of what happens when memory is denied and when fear is mistaken for peace.

Children of the River Mounds is a grounded, deeply human speculative novel set in a pre-Columbian Americas untouched by European contact. Drawing on realistic anthropology, shamanic visions, and generational storytelling, it imagines a world where the land remembers everything—and asks what it costs to listen.

This is not a story about heroes or conquest.
It is a story about legacy, survival, and the quiet consequences that shape civilizations.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Thoughtful historical and speculative fiction

• Pre-Columbian and indigenous-inspired settings

• Generational family sagas

• Subtle spiritual realism without fantasy tropes

• Stories that linger long after the final page

The land always remembers.
The question is whether we do.

Published by Emerald Coast Publishing