She Hums Like Mercy

A Southern Gothic elegy turned page-turner—where trauma becomes testimony, myth becomes memory, and silence refuses to stay quiet.

Harper Guidry once mistook chaos for love.
Mason Rudd—magnetic, rising-alt-country star, beautiful as he was dangerous—made pain sound like music and called it devotion. Their relationship scorched its way across bars, highways, and hotel rooms, leaving Harper with a silence she had to learn to survive.

Years later in New Orleans, Harper has rebuilt a gentler life—until the past returns in a form she never expected, forcing her to confront the ghost of a man the world turned into a legend.

As Harper tries to untangle the truth from the myth, her daughter, Evelyn, begins to write her own story—one that asks what we inherit, what we outrun, and what it costs to break a cycle that was written long before us.

She Hums Like Mercy is a lyrical, unflinching novel about survival, motherhood, and the dangerous alchemy of art and memory—where women reclaim the narrative one page, one bruise, one breath at a time.

Told through intimate interludes, letters, and fractured timelines, it explores:
emotional abuse • motherhood • music as a wound and a refuge • generational trauma • found family • women taking their stories back

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, Demon Copperhead, and The Paper Palace, She Hums Like Mercy is a haunting, heart-aching story about silence, survival, and the songs that outlive us.