A Series of Historical Novellas

Lost Voices

Some histories don’t threaten. They simply wait to be heard.

David R Leng

Each novella is built around a documented historical mystery and the person who had the best view of what really happened.

Someone the record overlooked. Someone who carried a truth for decades and took most of it to the grave. Not because they were cowardly or complicit, but because silence was sometimes the only protection available.

These are not action stories. They are the other kind. The kind where the most dramatic moment is the decision to stay quiet, and the weight of that decision across a lifetime. Same fascination with the past. A different kind of story.

Book One · Coming October 6, 2026

The Death of Blackbeard

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Israel Hands was Blackbeard’s first mate, one of the few senior crew to survive Ocracoke, and one of the only men who knew where the gold actually went. He testified against his own crew at the Williamsburg trials to save his neck, then disappeared from the historical record.

Until a leather journal surfaced in the wreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

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Book Two · Coming early 2027

Roanoke: The Lost Colony

In 1590, John White returned to find 115 English colonists vanished without trace. One word carved on a post. No bodies. No signs of struggle. No confirmed explanation in over four centuries.

A Croatoan elder knew what happened. He chose silence as the only protection his people had.

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Additional titles in development. Lost Voices novellas are standalone. No prior reading required.

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