Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It comes back with a bang.

For centuries, unexplained booms have rolled across the coast of North Carolina. They have rattled windows, startled generations, and earned a name no one has ever quite been able to explain: the Seneca Guns.

Most people have theories.

Nobody expects them to start bringing people back.

Suddenly, figures who belong safely in history books are turning up in a world that has spent centuries deciding who they were without them.

Blackbeard returns to the Carolina coast to discover that the notorious pirate whose severed head once hung from a bowsprit has somehow become a local celebrity, complete with festivals, legends, souvenirs, and people who seem considerably more excited to meet him than the Royal Navy ever was.

Wilbur and Orville Wright arrive in a world where their fragile machine at Kitty Hawk has become fighter jets streaking overhead, airliners crossing oceans, and humans routinely complaining about being delayed while doing something their century considered impossible.

And Katharine Wright has a few questions about why she seems to have been written out.

Anne Bonny finds a world in which women vote, fly airplanes, command ships, own property, choose their own lives, and can be every bit as troublesome as she was without being hanged for it.

As the mysterious booms continue, past and present begin colliding along the Carolina coast, forcing the people who made history to confront what history made of them.

Some are delighted.

Some are furious.

Some discover that the stories told about them aren't quite the stories they remember living.

And as the distance between then and now grows increasingly unstable, one question becomes harder to ignore:

If the past can hear the Seneca Guns too, what happens the next time they boom?

The Sound of the Seneca Guns is a speculative historical adventure about reputation, progress, forgotten voices, and the wonderfully strange experience of meeting yourself after the world has turned you into a legend... or reduced you to a footnote.