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The Daughters of Catilina
Written from the pages that remember, brought to life by the spirits that never forgot.
Where lineage lives, history does not stay silent.
Some stories are preserved in archives. Others survive in the land, the memories of families, & the voices of those who refuse to be forgotten.
The Daughters of Catilina is a multigenerational historical fiction series rooted in the Creole community of Mobile, Alabama. Blending documented history, ancestral mystery, and spiritually grounded storytelling, these novels follow generations of women whose lives are bound together by blood, land, secrets, & the enduring search for belonging.
Drawing from archival records, real historical figures, & Creole heritage, author Bekka Laurent brings eighteenth- & nineteenth-century Mobile to life, exploring the spaces between what history recorded & what it left untold.
Through the lives of these women, readers enter a world shaped by family, herbal traditions, spiritual beliefs, love, & survival. A world where changing governments, shifting laws, & social divisions threaten the communities they have built, yet the choices of one generation continue to echo through the next.
Here, rooted living is more than a philosophy. It is experienced through the people, places, traditions, & relationships that connect generations. It is found in what these women preserve, what they lose, what they fight for, & what they leave behind.
Before statehood. Before the city became what we know today.
There were families building lives along the Gulf Coast. Women raising children, tending gardens, practicing their traditions, & navigating a world that did not always recognize their place within it.
Their stories unfold through the streets, homes, & waterways of historic Mobile, where the past is never quite as distant as it seems.
This is historical fiction grounded in research & brought to life through imagination, where ancestral connections reach beyond generations. the consequences of the past refuse to remain buried. Their stories are not found only in documents. They live in the land, the water, & the memory of a city that still remembers.
These are their stories.
And if you listen closely, you may hear your own.
Ma Fille
Some stories are whispered by blood, not ink
Buried family secrets meet inherited gifts in a dual-timeline story of women whose past refuses to stay buried.
History holds more than dates. It carries the whispers of those who came before.
Set in historic Mobile, Alabama, Ma Fille blends Creole history, family legacy, and spiritual mystery in a story where the boundary between past and present is never quite fixed.
Across generations, women connected by blood, memory, and inherited gifts are drawn toward truths that have been buried, protected, and passed quietly through the family. As the past begins to surface, they must confront the secrets, traditions, and choices that continue to shape their lives.
Rooted in the history and culture of Mobile's Creole community, Ma Fille explores identity, belonging, ancestral connection, and the ways family stories can survive long after the people who lived them are gone.
Exploring Creole Heritage, Family Legacy & Ancestral Connection
This book is for you if you love:
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Immersive historical fiction grounded in real places and history
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Dual timelines connecting past and present
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Family secrets, inherited gifts, and ancestral mystery
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Strong women shaped by family, community, and tradition
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Stories centered on identity, heritage, and belonging
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Spiritual fiction where the unseen world touches the living
Some stories are whispered by blood, not ink.
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Twice Marked
Some inherit land. Others inherit silence.
When long-buried claims to the Fisher Tract begin to surface, what should have been a victory for the Mobile Creole community turns into something far more dangerous. Documents don’t line up. And the deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes, this fight was never just about property. It’s about who gets to belong.
As pressure builds from city officials and quiet threats start circling, the women at the center of it all are forced to reckon with more than legal battles.
History is shifting under their feet. Old decisions, some made to survive, others made to protect, are coming due. And not everyone telling the story is telling the truth.
Because being marked once might be survival. Being marked twice? That means you were never meant to disappear.
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Coming Soon.....
Secrets won’t stay buried, & the past isn’t finished with them yet.
Coming 2027
Unveiled Ties
Sophia meets a young woman whose presence challenges them both in ways neither could have imagined. As unexpected truths about themselves & the past come to light, they are forced to face what it truly means to belong.
Whispers Through the Veil
The Blood remembers even when the ink forgets.
Martin Soto, estate hearing notes
I thought I was cursed. Turns out, I was just chosen. And that scared people more than any hex ever could.
Miranda Robbins, Ma Fille
When the dead start whispering your name, you either listen or you break. I listened.
Sophia Ingram, Twice Marked
The tree didn’t just know me. It called me. Marked me. Now I can’t go back.
Damian Henry, Bienville Square Incident
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