Queen Killer (The Black Medina Series Book 1)

Humans arrived on Soulaan the way sickness arrives in a body — quietly, patiently, welcomed by fools. A century later, most of the melanated planet has been carved into zones, suppressed, surgically remade in the image of its colonizers. Most. Port Khuraan still bites back.Queen Ayaté Antoine has not bent her neck to LORED, has not signed away her people, and has not forgiven the cowardly ex-lover who handed his own kingdom over for a seat at the human table. When that ex-lover — King Ntwadumela Monreaux — comes south carrying LORED's latest ultimatum, Ayaté gives him an answer fourteen years in the making.What unfolds is a war fought with assassins, grief, and a fourteen-year-old girl named Dali — the first Neko born in a thousand years, who is either the weapon her mother needs or the daughter she is already losing. Read more