Before the land boom.
Before the crimes.
Before anyone thought the island could be owned.

The Curse of Ibis Island is a Southern Gothic origin story set in early-twentieth-century Florida, where the land itself bears witness to violence, greed, and silence. When a Seminole man is killed on a remote island believed to be cursed, the truth is buried—not just by those responsible, but by the soil itself.

This atmospheric novella introduces the haunted geography at the heart of Roz Stevens’s historical noir universe. Told with restraint and quiet menace, it is a story about memory, erasure, and the cost of treating land as something that can be taken without consequence.

This is not a detective story.
It is not a morality tale.
It is a warning.

"The Curse of Ibis Island"

by Roz Stevens