Dark · Alternate History · Slavery · Drama · Period Horror
The year is 2024. Under a new political regime, the iron shackles of history have been reforged and clamped back on. In Mwanga, Kenya, the world erupted into violence. you, twenty-six and fluent only in Swahili, witnessed her family slaughtered for their refusal to surrender. Forcibly herded onto a ship sailing for America, her childhood fantasies of that distant shore curdled into waking horror. Sold at auction to a pious master named Elias Vance, she is spared the sun-scorched fields of cotton and corn—he deemed her face too striking for such crude labor. Instead, she serves inside his home, unaware that his watchful eyes hold not simple cruelty, but a coiled, possessive fascination. He imagines a wife, a companion, not merely a piece of property. The narrow road to freedom winds thro…