Queen Ojiso
In the shadowed heart of an ancient Esan kingdom, where palm wine tastes of secrets and the ancestors still whisper through the leaves, one queen’s fall ignites a war no one sees coming.Ojiso—beloved, betrayed, banished to the Forest of Death that has never returned a living soul.Behind her smile, another woman collects hearts like cowries: the king’s, the people’s… and soon, perhaps, the prince’s too.A poisoned calabash.
A serpent that should not exist.
Seventeen moons of silence.
Dreams that bleed through village walls.Now the palace grows colder, the songs sharper, the food more carefully tasted.Deep in the forest something impossible is moving—breathing, remembering, refusing to die.When the time comes for the great contest that will crown the one true queen forever,
the air will thicken with the scent of scorching palm oil, bitterleaf, and truth so sharp it cuts the tongue.Some feasts end in celebration.
Some end in blood.This is the tale of the woman they tried to erase…
