Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, the son of an enslaved woman and the white man who owns them both. He possesses a photographic memory but cannot recall his mother’s face, a void that anchors his supernatural ability called Conduction. This force allows him to fold distance and travel through water across vast geographies. After nearly drowning, Hiram joins the Underground, a clandestine network working to dismantle the architectural cruelty of the Tasked system. He navigates the physical dangers of the South and the social complexities of Philadelphia, learning to harness his ancestral memory to teleport others to freedom.
Readers interested in the intersection of American history and speculative fiction will find a detailed study of how memory functions as a survival mechanism. The narrative serves those who want to see the mechanics of human trafficking countered by an internal, inherited magic. You walk away with a specific perspective on how the archival silence surrounding enslaved families can be reconstructed through communal storytelling. It is a study for those who value precise historical texture combined with a literalization of the spiritual strength required to escape systemic confinement.
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
