Coming of AgeFemale LeadPolitical IntrigueSurvival
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In 1892 The French invaded Dahomey, a small but powerful Kingdom in West Africa.
An experienced battle hardened French army they didn't account for the Agojie , The fierce and tough woman soldiers that formed the backbone of the Dahomean army.
Set approximately 65 years after "The Woman King" the Agojie stand for freedom, for their people and for Dahomey.
If you are familiar with "The Woman King" then Abomey ; Daughters of War is for you.
A historical fiction written around real events.
Epic FantasyFemale LeadHeistRomantic FantasySlow BurnSword and Sorcery
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Childhood friends Shai and Prince Jistan are on opposite sides now that they’re older; she’s with a gang of thieves because of her rare magic, while he leads his kingdom’s army, tasked with taking down criminals. When the two of them team up for a heist to retrieve a mysterious treasure chest, they can’t help falling for each other. But after discovering the chest’s true power and realizing the chaos it could cause, they must risk their love and their lives by keeping their prize away from Shai’s gang and Jistan’s cruel father, the Emperor.
Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest: A Legionnaire’s Tale follows Thomas York, an Englishman who leaves behind a life he would rather forget and enlists in the French Foreign Legion in the 1880s.
From the brutal training grounds of North Africa to the long voyage east, Thomas is thrown together with men who have also chosen anonymity over the lives they once knew. Among them are Marcel, an enormous Russian with a hidden past, and Bartoli, a volatile Sardinian whose humour, temper and skill with a knife make him as dangerous to his comrades as he is to the enemy.
Their destination is Tonkin.
France is expanding its influence in northern Vietnam, but the campaign is far from a simple colonial conquest. Chinese forces, Black Flag fighters and local resistance confront the French as armies struggle through flooded rice fields, jungle, fortified towns and river valleys. At Sơn Tây, Bắc Ninh and across the Tonkin countryside, Thomas discovers that courage has little to do with glory and everything to do with the man standing beside you when the shooting starts.
As comrades fall and the Legion strips away what remains of the man he once was, Thomas must decide whether the Legion has given him somewhere to hide—or somewhere finally to belong.
A story of friendship, loss, loyalty and survival amid one of France’s forgotten colonial wars.
Lilith Ashford was a name you'd easily hear in the hospital hallways but you wouldn't spot her easily until you were keen enough.
She was usually in the spotlight yet not clearly seen. No one concentrated enough on her until a new medic is hired and he begins showing up everywhere she is.
They say that he's cold and aloof, always minding his business and rarely interacting with the other staff but why does he keep trying to help everytime Lilith finds herself in a fix?
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"My eyes," for a moment, my hands stopped shaking and my attention instantly shifted to him.
"Look into them when you get too overwhelmed," He uttered softly as he held the tiny palm of my hand against his.
I followed the pattern of his breathing, firmly grasping onto his hand and the edge of his white coat as the lift went up to the fortieth floor.
Not once did my eyes deter from his.
Coming of AgeEpic FantasyFemale LeadRomantic FantasySlow BurnSurvivalSword and Sorcery
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Alya has always felt different. Mocked for how she looks and branded a freak for her strange abilities, she's learned to live as an outcast.
When a surge of unexplainable power rips through her classroom and a mysterious boy named Jayden appears in her life, the strange abilities she's spent years hiding become the key to a realm beyond her imagination.
He's protective, kind, and infuriatingly charming, but there's something about him that doesn't quite add up... something almost as strange as she is.
Driven by Jayden's push and the pull of her own unanswered questions, Alya sets out to find the mother she thought had abandoned her and discovers a whole hidden world with people like her, and a family who's been waiting for her.
But her arrival awakens an ancient darkness. A Rot that has waited a thousand years for the extraordinary power within her.
To protect the family she has just found and save all life under the moon, Alya must journey alongside a blunt, ice-gliding elf and her cousins to master her powers, before the darkness finds her.
Before the Sunset is Book One of the Children of the Tide series: a fantasy tale of love, loss, self-discovery, and the courage to embrace who you truly are... against all odds.
Abomey
S. L. Byers
Medina Oktaviana
Maryjane Chiedozi