When Kola returns home for his father’s burial, he expects grief and unfinished tension. Instead, he discovers hidden blueprints for a house his father once dreamed of building. On a forgotten plot of land, Kola finds evidence of a life his father never lived.
As he struggles to manage the fading family transport business and confront old resentment, Kola must decide whether to return to the city or build something lasting on the soil he once rejected. Ashes Beneath the Mango Tree is a layered family saga about inheritance, pride, and the quiet revisions that bind generations together.
Kyle Hambster is a storyteller and craftsman of atmosphere, drawn to the quiet tension between technology and memory. With a background in film restoration and an obsession with mechanical design, Rickel writes about the places where progress and nostalgia collide where gears, circuits, and human hearts still turn in sync. The Geometry of Gears is his debut work, a meditation on time, purpose, and the enduring beauty of things made by hand. He lives surrounded by vintage machines and unfinished manuscripts, always chasing the sound of a perfect click.View all by Kyle Hambster
