One queen's vengeance. Two daughters' choices. A kingdom's reckoning. When Queen Adunbi of Akakolu massacres her enemies on her daughter's wedding night, she ignites a war that threatens to destroy everything she swore to protect.

Her eldest daughter, Ajoke, flees into the wilderness with a grieving heart and a servant burdened by dangerous secrets. Her youngest, Amope, is forced into the brutal order of the Three Faces, where she must choose between surrendering her identity or defying the will of her ancestors.

As rival kingdoms march to war, ancient prophecies awaken, and loyalties fracture, the women of Akakolu must decide whether to preserve the traditions that made them powerful or break them forever, no matter the cost.

Inspired by Yoruba mythology and the grandeur of precolonial West Africa, The Queen of the Sea and Ashes is an epic fantasy of queens and daughters, loyalty and betrayal, war and sacrifice, where the greatest battles are fought against history itself. Book One of the Apongba Chronicles.