THE STYX Bronze Medal winner in the annual Florida Book Awards competition! A powerful historical novel of greed, murder, and conspiracy set in turn-of-the-century Palm Beach. The Great Migration of the 1890s remade south Florida as Northern developers, former sharecroppers, and recent immigrants rushed to the state to seek their fortunes. Sitting atop it all was the Royal Poinciana Hotel, built on the shores of Palm Beach by real estate tycoon Henry Flagler. Nearby was the Styx, an African American community that housed many of the Royal Poinciana's 1,200 workers. Shortly after the hotel's completion, the Styx would be mysteriously burned to the ground in a tragedy clouded for generations by rumor and myth—until now. Riveting and suspenseful, The Styx is a historical novel that brings to life the frenzy of Reconstruction-era Florida, the racial tensions simmering beneath the surface, and the events that changed one community forever. BUY THE EBOOK Amazon Kindle Store Apple iBookstore   PRAISE "I enjoyed The Styx enormously! You've woven a twisty, intriguing plot, added great dollops of social consciousness, given us vivid characters in Michael, Faustus and Marjory... (A) wonderful book."    —Richard Marek, former President and Publisher of E.P. Dutton and Editor-at-Large for the Crown Publishing Group