the KEPT: Pocahontas, MMIP, and Names That Refused to Be Erased

When tribal liaison officer Nayeli Lightfoot begins investigating her cousin's disappearance, she expects another case lost to jurisdictional gaps and institutional neglect. What she finds instead is a pattern-Indigenous women vanishing along an invisible corridor, their cases scattered, their names forgotten, their stories never meant to connect.But something is connecting them.Guided by fragments buried in colonial archives, erased histories, and a voice that speaks through static and dreams, Nayeli uncovers a truth older than the system that failed these women. The missing are not gone. They are being kept-held in a place beyond time, where memory is stripped away and identity is reduced to silence. And at the center of it all is a name history tried to rewrite: Pocahontas, not as legend, but as witness... and warning.As the winter solstice approaches, the boundary between worlds begins to thin. With the help of a survivor who has seen the place where the taken are held, a grieving mother who has spent decades mapping the disappearances, and a historian who knows how history lies, Nayeli must piece together the truth before the threshold closes again.Because this isn't just about finding the missing.It's about calling them back.And something ancient is determined to keep them forgotten.THE KEPT is a literary supernatural thriller about memory, erasure, and the fight to reclaim the women history was designed to forget. For readers of Annihilation, True Detective, and The Only Good Indians.

Pagina's: 253, Paperback, Independently published