When trouble follows him into detention, Eli never expects to stumble into a time machine-or into the blood-soaked birth of Texas statehood. Thrown back to the years when Texas traded its independence for the promise of law and order, Eli witnesses how votes, borders, and constitutions were written with real human cost. As violence erupts along the border, slavery is defended in the name of stability, and leaders like Anson Jones fade into history's margins, Eli begins to see a monster at work-one that feeds on silence, compromise, and forgetting. Remember Texas: Blood on the Constitution is a dark, gripping historical horror novel that pulls middle school readers into the brutal truths behind early statehood and asks a haunting question: who paid in blood for the laws we still live under?