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| My image of Ebube. Illustration by Jenny Dolfen |
In honour of All Hallows Eve, I’m sharing an excerpt from my paranormal
romance work-in-progress titled The
Healer’s Warrior. This story is part of a paranormal series I hope will be
published next year. It is set in medieval Iboland. Whilst I've based the
story on certain Igbo mythologies and traditions, it is wholly a work of
fiction and fantasy.
The story so far: Ugo is a young woman who has been ostracised by her
community. She is an outcast living with her paternal grandmother on the edge
of society. She is also gifted with healing powers. One day she finds a strange
injured warrior, Ebube, in the dark forest. She patches him up temporarily and
takes him home. That night she dreams a demon is going to attack Ebube. She wakes
from her dream and tells her grandmother and Ebube. They both urge her not to
worry, so she returns to sleep only to be woken later by her grandmother.
