Rae Giana Rashad Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Rae Giana Rashad is a published author who writes southern speculative fiction. Her debut novel is The Blueprint.

The Blueprint is the debut novel from Rae Giana Rashad. Read the book that people like Ashley Audrain, best selling author of The Push, calls ‘an astounding work’ that ‘chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood’.

In the same vein as Octavia E. Butler and Margaret Atwood comes a harrowing novel set in an alternate version of the United States– a place of injustice and bondage in which a young Black woman becomes the concubine of a powerful government official who is white and must face up to dangerous consequences.

Solenne Bonet resides in Texas, a place where choice no longer exists. A Black woman’s occupation, spouse, and residence is determined by an algorithm.

Solenne finds comfort in penning the biography of Henriette, an ancestor who had been an enslaved concubine to a wealthy planter in 1800s Louisiana. However, history finds a way of repeating itself when Solenne finds herself entangled with high-ranking government official Bastien Martin.

However, Solenne finds the psychological bond unbearable, so she considers her alternatives. With her ancestor serving as her guide, she has to choose whether she will leave behind all that she knows and whether or not to do it.

Inspired by the lives of enslaved concubines to politicians and planters, The Blueprint unfolds over dual timelines all while exploring hypocrisy, bodily autonomy, and power imbalances through the lens of an unprotected black girl in a fictional timeline that never officially existed. Read this book to absorb it all and to find out more!