A review by Willoway Staff
The cursed, the curser.
Water up to her chest, then her neck. Swamp devouring her as it eats the banks, chewing grass into ribbons limp and squirming.
Down she goes into the murk.
Until she vanishes beneath a single ripple.
Family secrets are built brick by brick as walls of protection. But Susana Prather finds that these secrets bind victims to a tragic history and become barriers that imprison generations in an inescapable destiny. Tormented by sleepwalking and haunting dreams, Susana realizes she has a year to break a 7-generation curse. She must unravel family secrets and face unsettling truths to break free of a dark magic that has plagued the women in her family for more than 100 years. Set in Georgia swamp country, Curses and Other Buried Things takes the reader on a mysterious journey through time, telling the tale of Susana’s present and her distant grandmother’s past– lives that are remarkably similar and unmistakably linked.
When night after night Susana wanders the swamp and wakes without memory, she becomes determined to find answers and unlock secrets. Sorting out the strange behavior of the grandparents who raised her, navigating romance and friendships, and fighting to keep her sanity, Susana races the clock to break the curse before it breaks her.
A master of time shifting narrative, author Caroline George carries the reader from present to past engaging the reader equally in the 21st Century and the 1800s. George draws from the mysteries and tall tales of her own family mythology to explore the power of generational links. Curses and Other Buried Things is a beautiful Southern work that weaves a fantastic story from the roots of backwater superstition. Lacing together chilling Gothic with the elegance of Southern storytelling, George presents a tale that will haunt the reader long after the last chapter ends.
And… it’s all true except for the parts made up.
Willoway Publishing 
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