The Troubled Wave, complete, unpublished novel. The year is 1900: the setting, Washington, D.C. The country is conducting the Spanish-American War, while thousands of soldiers die or return stateside with terrible wounds and injuries. At home, the gap between the super-rich and the poor has never been wider. Two young women, one white and one African American, invent an extraordinary device to draw voices and sounds from inanimate objects. How long can they keep it a secret? How long before someone steals and commercializes it or uses it to gain power? This literary novel for adults tells their story.