A HEART-POUNDING YORUBA INSPIRED FANTASY NOVEL SET IN AN EPIC WORLD OF COURTLY INTRIGUE AND FORBIDDEN POWER . . .

AIn Oru L’ore has a secret. She is the only one without agbra the ability to harness power from the sun. On pain of death she must conceal it from everyone.

Including her best friend, Alawani. But when the gods declare Alawani an lf a great honour where he will serve the gods and the Kingdom he must be stripped of his power in a brutal trial likely to kill him. Unwilling to bear his death, L’ore vows to rescue him.

When she desperately attempts to channel agbra an icy shadow magic instead pours from her hands; a power she learns originated from a forbidden, secret land beyond the six rings of Oru. One where she and Alawani must now seek sanctuary and discover a secret that could bring the Kingdom to its knees.