![]() Marie-Claire, raised by free parents, grows up watching the Grand and Petit Blancs increasingly restrict the freedoms of the Coloreds and the freed Affranchi, while the enslaved resist with poison or outright revolt. Once on Saint-Domingue, under the thumb of the brutal Duclos, Toya protects her fellow enslaved and her friend’s son, Janjak, as he works to buy his freedom and win the beautiful Marie-Claire. As their general, she sacrifices herself to enslavement to protect her king. When her West African village is sacked, Abdaraya Toya trains as a Minos, the elite female guard of the Dahomey. ![]() ![]() ![]() Riley brings to life the Haitian Revolution through the lens of its two most important female protagonists in this thrilling and utterly engrossing saga. ![]()
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