Island Beneath the Sea: A Captivating Historical Romance of Love, Freedom, and Resilience in the Caribbean

Island Beneath the Sea follows Zarité, known as Tété, a woman born into slavery on the island of Saint-Domingue to an African mother she never knew and a white sailor. Growing up amid brutality and fear, she found comfort in African drum rhythms and voodoo traditions. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives in 1770 to manage his father's plantation, Saint Lazare, his life intersects with Tété's. Overwhelmed by his responsibilities and trapped in a difficult marriage, Valmorain relies on his teenaged slave Tété as his most important confidant. Their bond connects them across four decades of upheaval, shaping both their lives. The novel moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution to the parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth century, telling the story of a woman determined to take control of her own destiny.