Elliott Oliver Williams — Debut Novel
A Novel
"If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?" — Kendrick Lamar, "Poetic Justice"
The Book
When a young minister from New York City arrives to lead a holiness revival, nobody calls him trouble. Not at first. Elias Beaumont Cole is twenty-six years old, magnetic, gifted with a preacher's voice and a charmer's instincts.
Over six weeks, he sees something real in each of the eleven Favors sisters — and each of them, in their own way, sees something real in him. By the time he returns to New York, six of them are carrying more than he left behind.
Decades later, the Great Migration carries the sisters north. They land within walking distance of Elias Cole's church on 126th Street. The secret doesn't end. It deepens. The children born from it grow up as cousins — loving each other, protecting each other, hearing rumors they can't name — never knowing they are bound by something far older than choice.
On September 4, 2015, a phone call changes everything.
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About the Author
Elliott Oliver Williams is a first-generation storyteller whose debut novel draws from a family secret kept for sixty years across two generations and two coasts.
"The secrets that shape us are rarely ours to begin with. But the reckoning always is."Read More
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