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Dark Bloodline (progenitor)
They buried an entire race in the sand and called it the natural order. On the supercontinent of Pangaea, only one bloodline is allowed to climb. The fair-skinned Neanderthal clans of the inner lands claim exclusive dominion over advanced cultivation and the protection of the ancestral spirits. Everyone else is vermin. The dark-skinned tribes were driven into the outer deserts generations ago—left to wander, to starve, to die under the claws of colossal draconic beasts while the ruling clans openly sneer at the crude body-tempering methods they are permitted to practice. Rising higher is not merely illegal. It is unthinkable. Then the sky tore open. On the same night a boy named Ayang drew his first breath in a dwindling desert clan, a mountain-sized fragment of an Immortal-world garden crashed into a nearby lake. The impact did not merely scar the earth. It planted a miracle. Fertile soil that turns ordinary plants into elixirs overnight. Divine fruits that temper flesh beyond the limits the ruling clans believe possible. And, deeper still, an immortal-tier body cultivation technique sealed behind progressive criteria that no one of his blood was ever meant to meet. While water-race dinosaurs thrash in the surrounding shallows and the desert winds continue to erase his people one generation at a time, Ayang grows up watching his clan wither under discrimination and enforced scarcity. He does not simply hunger for personal power. He intends to do the unforgivable: shatter the racial barriers that have kept his kind crawling, forge a bloodline lineage strong enough to stand among the star-level ancestral clans of the inner continent, and drag his people out of nomadism by force. The ruling clans believe the outer deserts produce only dust and corpses. They have never met a child who was born the same night the Immortal realm itself fell into his backyard. And they have no idea that the technique locked inside that fallen garden was never meant to stay locked forever.
Ongoing23 chaptersCultivation · Political · Epic Fantasy
Oaths Outlive the Oathmaker
A mercenary swears an oath to a dying queen and finds that in the savanna-kingdoms, an oath is a living thing that does not care if you meant it. It will drag him across a continent to keep a promise he never intended to keep.
Ongoing25 chaptersEpic Fantasy · Adventure · War
The War-Drum of Mombasa
When the great war-drum of the coastal city sounds, every able hand takes up arms — but the drum has not sounded in a hundred years, and the woman tasked with guarding it has just heard it beat on its own.
OngoingEpic Fantasy · War · Adventure
Slow Fire, Lagos Rain
Ten years ago they were going to take over the Lagos music scene together — until one of them left without a word. Now Yetunde is back, the rains have come early, and the studio they once shared has one session left to book. A second-chance romance about the songs you never finished.
Ongoing25 chaptersRomance · Contemporary · Drama
Spirits Ride the Red Line
Detective Aïssatou works the cases the city files under "unexplained" — the ones that happen on the last train, where the passengers all swear they were alone. A companion to The Night Bus to Houston, riding a different city’s rails.
Ongoing25 chaptersUrban Fantasy · Mystery · Contemporary
The Masked Court of Storms
At the Storm Court, no one shows their face and no one tells the truth, and the only law is the weather the spirit-binders make. Sent as a hostage-bride to a court that killed the last three, Zuri intends to be the one they cannot read — and the storm they cannot bind.
Ongoing25 chaptersEpic Fantasy · Romance · Political
His Love Became Her Obsession
They say time heals everything. It didn't heal her. It changed her. Somewhere in this city, a man believes his past is finally behind him. A woman believes she knows everything about the man she married. And somewhere else, in a room full of old photographs, someone is still counting the days until they're both wrong.
Ongoing9 chaptersDrama · Romance · Contemporary
VESSEL: The Rise Of Children Of Ajitannawo
For three centuries, we have never known what was truth and what was a lie. We were told that the Earth was uninhabitable, so we lived beneath it, inside the bunker. Those who came before us called it the Vessel. To us, it was home. It was our reality. But when reality became too much to bear, we began to seek the truth of our origins, only to face the bitterness that history had hidden from us. To be free, we must fight the very god we worship, Aláṣẹ. We are the children of Ajitannawo. We are the Vessel of what history chose to hide.
OngoingPost-Apocalyptic · Action · Mystery
The Debt-Demon's Phone Number
There is a number you can call when you are truly desperate, and a voice that will fix anything — for a price you will spend the rest of your life repaying. Kobby called it once. Now he runs a crew of fellow debtors pulling supernatural heists to buy their souls back, one impossible job at a time.
Ongoing25 chaptersUrban Fantasy · Heist · Comedy
Saved by grace
At just six years old, Geoffrey witnessed something he could never forget. Growing up in a quiet riverside community in Ekeremor, Bayelsa State, Geoffrey's childhood seemed ordinary—until one dry-season day changed everything. What began as an innocent moment by the river would become the beginning of a journey filled with secrets, loss, struggles, faith, and unexpected encounters. Years later, Geoffrey finds himself confronting the memories of his past and the circumstances that shaped his life. Just when everything seems lost, an unseen hand begins to lead him toward a destiny he never imagined. Through pain, danger, love, and difficult choices, Geoffrey discovers that some lives are preserved for a purpose—and sometimes, when all hope seems gone, grace is the only thing standing between you and destruction. He survived what should have ended him. But why was he saved?
Ongoing23 chaptersTragedy · Drama · Slice of Life
