It’s a supernatural love story inspired by West African folklore and dripping in political commentary and modern parallels. Brown, who was born in Ghana and immigrated to the United States as a child. With no other surviving members of the royal family, Karina sets her sights on the winner of a series of competitions held during the festival-competitions from which an unlikely champion, a refugee named Malik, is emerging.Ī Song of Wraiths and Ruin is the lush debut novel from author Roseanne A. When the queen is assassinated on the eve of the empire’s Solastasia festival, Karina embarks on a dark quest to resurrect her, but in order to complete the spell, she must obtain the heart of a king. Her relationship with her mother, the queen, hasn’t been the same since the deaths of her father and beloved sister in a fire now her mother’s only remaining heir, Karina finds the pressure to live up to her sister’s example, to be the perfect future queen, unbearable. Unbeknownst to Malik, however, Karina is also on a deadly mission. They’re set on a collision course when Malik makes a deal with the power-hungry spectre that kidnaps his little sister: He must kill Princess Karina to ensure his sister’s safe return. Both long to escape the circumstances of their lives.
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