Set in the wild heart of 1890s Florida, When the Live Oak Cries — Whispers of Gulf Hammock is a sweeping tale of love, family, betrayal, and survival beneath the ancient live oaks of Old Florida.
Ella Nora Watts has grown up in the remote beauty of Gulf Hammock, where rivers run dark beneath towering cypress and the wilderness keeps its secrets. But as violence, greed, and long-buried tensions begin to close in around her family, Ella Nora is forced to confront a changing world—and choices that will alter the course of her life forever.