The Last Deed on Sapelo
A Gullah Geechee Mystery

About this book:

Maya Jackson has spent twelve years and two thousand billable hours a year climbing out of the Georgia Lowcountry into the gleaming towers of Atlanta corporate law. One midnight call from her aunt shatters the ascent: surveyors are planting flags on her grandfather's land on Sapelo Island, and the developer orchestrating the theft is Marcus Vance—Maya's own managing partner, the man holding the keys to her partnership.

Armed with a tarnished compass, a locked case file she can't officially access, and a legal education bought with the very culture she left behind, Maya returns to Hog Hammock. There, the Gullah Geechee community faces a predator wielding partition suits, tax sales, and the quiet violence of paper—tools designed to turn generational heirs' property into luxury marinas. But the marsh holds secrets older than any deed: a missing 1868 grant, a shell ring buried in the sweetgrass, and a family history that refuses to stay filed away.

From the McIntosh County courthouse to the tabby ruins of the island's interior, Maya must master a law that was never written for people like her kin—before the tide rises high enough to wash the deeds clean. *The Last Deed on Sapelo* is a razor-sharp legal thriller rooted in the salt and blood of the Sea Islands, where every boundary line is a battle line, and the most dangerous clause is the one that says you don't belong.