The Probate of Absalom Sayers

Mississippi, 1847. Absalom Sayers is dead—a Black cotton planter who built an empire on two hundred and forty acres and the labor of nineteen enslaved people—and he left no will. Now his widow Winnie must defend every acre in a probate court rigged against her, facing a scheming stepson hungry for liquidation, fraudulent creditors circling the estate, and a buried document that could erase her husband's freedom retroactively, reducing everything he touched to legal fiction. One woman. A county full of vultures. And a truth no one can afford to let surface.