Birdsong's Law: A Novella of 1619 Virginia - Softcover

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Previously published as Birdsong by Thomas S. InmanA forged note. A poisoned cup. A legal system inventing race as guilt.

For fans of gripping historical fiction and legal thrillers, Birdsong’s Law delivers a powerhouse story set in the dangerous wilderness of early America.

When free man Njila Mwana a Hosi is wrongfully accused of poisoning the English woman he loves, he is thrust into a corrupt courtroom drama. To survive execution, he must outrun a hunting party, expose a murderer, and battle a government weaponizing rumor and suspicion.

Why readers love Birdsong’s Law:

Impeccable Research: Built on years of land-patent reconstruction work and consultations with scholars and Native community leaders.

High Stakes: A breathless passage from African kingdoms to the 1622 Powhatan attack.

Timeless Themes: A powerful exploration of forbidden romance, political conspiracy, and human resilience.

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Author’s Note
This novel grew out of years of land-patent reconstruction work in Virginia — the slow, exacting process of reading the colony’s earliest documents line by line, ridge by ridge, and ford by ford. That work led me into the world of 1619 and its aftermath, where the boundaries of race, land, and law were still being invented. I consulted with scholars of early Virginia and with leaders of the Saponi and Nottoway communities whose ancestors lived the consequences of those inventions.

Njila’s story is fictional, but the forces shaping him are not. The colony really did weaponize rumor, suspicion, coerced testimony, and pliable courts. The Powhatan attack of 1622 did, in fact, reset the colony’s fears and ambitions. And early racial laws emerged from cases where evidence mattered less than political usefulness.

I wrote Birdsong’s Law to explore the human cost of that moment — the courage required to stay human when the law is learning how to erase you.

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