Sing Down The Moon

Sing Down the Moon (2026). Set on a remote Georgia barrier island steeped in Southern folklore and family inheritance, this novel follows sixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye as she struggles against the haunting legacy tied to her family’s sacred fig tree.

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Sixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye yearns to escape Good Hope, the remote Georgia coastal barrier island where she resides. Leontyne’s heritage is bleak. Tasked with tending Damascus, an ancient fig tree beguiling haints across the river with its wind chime song, Leontyne’s mother, Eulalee, disintegrates into tufts of hair, teeth, and memory. This affliction befalls all Skye women, a fatal consequence of distilling Redemption, an addictive drug made from the figs of Damascus imbued with the essence of haints. Leontyne also tumbles apart, her memories and hand lost in a life-altering accident suffered two years back during an event known as Tribulation Day. Through unreliable recollections of her trusted friends the Longwood twins, Leontyne stitches a dubious understanding of who she was before she fell “the long-long ways.” In the aftermath of Eulalee’s death, Leontyne is pressured by the Longwoods to render Redemption, continuing the legacy upon which Good Hope depends.