What the Levee Said

In a town where whispers can seal your fate, one girl dares to unearth the buried truth. Chantal Perrier, a precocious and audacious twelve-year-old, feels the shadows of her mother's unexplained disappearance loom large over her life in Belmont, Louisiana. Born into a world of untold secrets and racial divides, she channels her defiance into a relentless pursuit of truth, determined to unravel the mysteries that have haunted her family for generations. Raised in her family's sprawling but dilapidated estate, Chantal has her mother's defiance and her father's gambler's mind. She's brilliant, blunt, and far too curious for a town built on silence. As Chantal delves deeper into the dark underbelly of the Leopard Society, a clandestine group that has woven itself into the fabric of Belmont and the surrounding region, she uncovers evidence of corruption, deception, and a legacy of injustice that reaches back to a devastating flood. But with danger lurking in the shadows and powerful families eager to silence her, Chantal must race against time to expose the truth before it claims more lives. Maybe even her own. Some floods aren't acts of God. Some disappearances aren't accidents. And the levee? The levee always talks—if you're brave enough to listen.