Charley Brindley

She was taken from her world… and thrown into another.Kokuma was born during the second dry season of 1784, in the central African country of Ruanda. Her village, Ngarama, on the Kaginmba River, was just two degrees south of the equator. She was strong, proud, and free.Then the raiders came.Captured and sold into slavery, she survives the horrors of the Middle Passage and finds herself on a plantation in Georgia—where survival means obedience… or death.But Kokuma refuses to be broken.When she fights back and kills the two white men who would destroy her, she becomes a fugitive—hunted across a vast and unforgiving land.Wounded, starving, and alone, she should have died.Instead, she is...

She was taken from her world… and thrown into another.Kokuma was born during the second dry season of 1784, in the central African country of Ruanda. Her village, Ngarama, on the Kaginmba River, was just two degrees south of the equator. She was strong, proud, and free.Then the raiders came.Captured and sold into slavery, she survives the horrors of the Middle Passage and finds herself on a plantation in Georgia—where survival means obedience… or death.But Kokuma refuses to be broken.When she fights back and kills the two white men who would destroy her, she becomes a fugitive—hunted across a vast and unforgiving land.Wounded, starving, and alone, she should have died.Instead, she is...