05/15/2026
I wasn’t ready. I want to be clear about that 🥹
The prologue of Once Upon Our Time opens in 1864. A young soldier from Mississippi, shot and dying alone in the Tennessee woods. The battle already moving on without him. The mud cold. Everything going quiet.
And Victoria Rocus, in what I can only describe as an act of emotional warfare, tells us what he’s thinking about in those last moments.
Not the Confederacy. Not the cause. Not the men he fought beside.
His mama’s biscuits.
The girl he loved.
That’s it. That’s the whole prologue. And I had already completely given my heart to a man who had been dead for 160 years before I even turned to chapter one.
What follows is a paranormal ghost romance set in Spring Hill, Tennessee — equal parts Southern gothic atmosphere, hoodoo and sage smoke, and a love story that refuses to stay buried in the past where it belongs.
If you’re a reader who needs to feel something all the way to your bones — this is your next book.
Once Upon Our Time by Victoria Rocus is available now in ebook, paperback, and a stunning special edition with foiling and sprayed edges. 🔮
