In a world where bloodline is destiny, ChyeChye knows only this: she hatched from a golden egg in the ashes of war, her parents’ names lost to the claws of the Koti Empire. Now, on her eighteenth birthday, she must complete the hil hoisa—the sacred ritual to awaken her dragon form and claim her place in the queendom of Salone. But when the ritual doesn’t go as planned, ChyeChye discovers a truth more terrifying than failure: her power is not what—or who—she thought. Haunted by visions of a dragoness swallowed by moonlight and armed only with her wits and her best friend Gbanya (a warrior with golden horns and a poet’s heart), ChyeChye embarks on a quest to:
• Unearth the secrets of her mother’s last flight.
• Assemble a weapon forged from Ipal’s celestial fire.
• Rally a legion of outcasts, each with a war-scarred past.
But time is slipping like sand through her fingers. The Koti armies are massing, their feral dragons blotting out the sun. And the deeper ChyeChye digs into her past, the more she questions: Is she the queendom’s salvation… or the weapon that will burn it to the ground?
For the Orphans & Survivors: A heroine who wears her scars like armor and her questions like constellations.
Afrofuturist Mythmaking: A world where palm oil is sacred, dragons roar in battle, and queens rise from rubble.
A Love Letter to Resilience: For anyone who’s ever wondered, “Whose blood runs in my veins?”
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