Histria Books is pleased to announce the release of A Storm Coming by Chuck Locklear. This novel is published by Histria Fiction, an imprint of Histria Books dedicated to outstanding original works of fiction.
In A Storm Coming, Chuck Locklear takes us to the coastal plains of 1710 North Carolina, right to the brink of the Tuscarora War. The story follows eighteen year old Jane, or Runehu’hu, a reluctant strategist and niece of a clan mother who must navigate the violent squeeze of colonial expansion and the slave trade.
What makes this novel stand out is where it points the camera. Locklear bypasses the usual pioneer mythology to center a matrilineal society fighting for survival, framing early American history entirely through indigenous resistance and tribal politics. Jane is not a hollow archetype of defiance. She is a grieving, sharp minded young woman weighing family loyalty against the unbearable costs of war. Readers are actively seeking historical fiction that dismantles old colonial narratives, and Locklear answers that demand. It is a tense, researched look at a marginalized era, built around a protagonist learning to wield power as her world breaks apart.
Praise for A Storm Coming:
“A fiercely rendered and historically immersive portrait of early eighteenth-century North Carolina, A Storm Coming balances the brutal realities of colonial expansion with an intimate, profoundly human story of indigenous survival. I went into this expecting a standard historical drama, but I found a story with considerably more grit and political teeth.”–Deviant Quill Reviews
Chuck Locklear is a member of the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina, a retired educator of thirty years, and a pastor currently serving in Metro Detroit. His debut novel, A Storm Coming, is the culmination of a lifelong quest to trace his ancestry and uncover the true story of his seventh great-grandmother. Drawing on deep archival research and his own family’s enduring legacy, Locklear writes to preserve the early indigenous experience and offer readers a powerful message of hope, survival, and connection.
