Names Like Prayers

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jordan was fifteen when she died inside a juvenile detention center. The records said she'd been transferred. Her cousin spent eight months searching before finding her buried as Jane Doe. Three years after his brother Malik died at Black Hollow Prison, Desmond Rios prepares to testify before Congress. Malik left behind evidence of experiments on prisoners and children, falsified medical records, and government contracts linking facilities across twelve states. Desmond follows the evidence to an abandoned juvenile center in Tennessee. A former psychologist describes what happened to the children. Someone has been stripping equipment from the building. Men track Desmond's movements, and witnesses are offered money to keep quiet. In Washington, Eunice “Mama E” Blackfeather keeps a handwritten ledger of people who died in custody. She records their names, their ages, and the things they loved. She spent twenty-three years working inside Black Hollow. She knows how easily a person can disappear into paperwork. When a scientist presumed dead returns with proof that the experiments continue, Desmond finally has enough evidence to expose the operation. But the files contain intimate details about abused children. Publishing everything could hurt the very people he's trying to help. Names Like Prayers is a literary conspiracy thriller about prison abuse, secret experiments, political corruption, and the families left to account for the dead. Malik has been dead for three years. The people responsible are still getting paid.