Both Djola and Awa will be tested, and both will make enormous sacrifices to save the people-and the world-they love. Along the way, she will learn to question much of what she’s been taught: about the Elders, about people the Empire calls "savages," and about “vesons,” who, like Yari, are neither man nor woman. Sold to the Green Elders on her 12th birthday, Awa comes of age on the margins of empire, learning from Yari, the griot (storyteller) of griots. Awa has an affinity with bees and a talent for traveling to Smokeland, the spirit realm. But Djola believes in his “map to tomorrow,” which involves searching for a powerful spell to unravel the cause of the dangerous void-storms. Hezram, a powerful priest, offers to use dark blood magic. An epic fantasy set in an African-inspired world on the brink of ecological disaster.ĭjola, the Arkhysian Empire’s Master of Poisons, has a plan to stop the spreading poison desert.
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