THE AJẸ’S WAR-BRIDE
A Yoruba Fantasy Romance Novel
She was born to devour gods. He was born to burn witches. The prophecy demands they marry. Neither of them is ready for what comes after.
Adunni Ajani is the last daughter of the Ìdẹ̀mí Coven — the deep mothers who have secretly protected Yorubaland for three thousand years. She has known since childhood that she is the Odu’s choice, that a man with lightning in his eyes will come, that she will have to walk into the fire and hold the thunder in her bare hands. What she was not told is that she would watch her mother burn before she spoke a single word of the prophecy.
Ọlájidé believes he is Sàngó reborn. He has built an army, burned temples, and crowned himself king on the strength of that belief. He is wrong — and the woman standing in her mother’s ashes with the Odu marks blazing on her back is about to tell him so.
But the real enemy is not the thunder king. Somewhere behind his throne, a seven-hundred-year-old witch has been feeding him visions, steering his violence, and digging toward the heart of the spirit world itself. In three days, the veil between the living and the dead will tear open. The only thing that can stop it is the one union the prophecy has always demanded: àjẹ́ and thunder, together, whether they want to be or not.
The Àjẹ́’s War-Bride is a Yoruba fantasy romance of death and devotion, of enemies who become something neither of them planned, of a woman who devours the dark so the world can have light — and the man who is finally seen clearly enough to become real.
For readers of: Tomi Adeyemi · Nalini Singh · Sarah J. Maas · Raven Kennedy
