Salt, Smoke, and Honey

by Gresham Smith

In the Lowcountry of Charleston, the air carries memory. Salt from the marsh. Smoke from old prayers. Honey sweet enough to bind what should never touch. Kissi Anderson has always trusted her instincts. Raised between the Black church and her family's Hoodoo traditions, she knows when something feels wrong long before the world catches up. So when a quiet, magnetic Haitian American musician named Wesley Toussaint begins appearing in her life first in p...