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    Sacrifice

    By Kiru Taye

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    Mating an outcast requires a blood sacrifice.
    Ebube has rejoined his warriors on the hunt for the sacred amulet but his heart is left behind with Ugo. He's focused on completing his task and returning to her quickly.
    Ugo has found a new confidence since Ebube's departure. Her waking moments are preoccupied by thoughts of his return.
    She isn’t lonely any more as those who had previously ignored her now take an interest in her. After saving a child's life, she is now in demand for her skills.
    But the gods are not so forgiving or forgetful and they will demand a high price for Ebube's and Ugo's disobedience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLove Africa Press
    Release dateMar 30, 2018
    ISBN9781370312269
    Sacrifice
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    Kiru Taye

    As a lover of romance novels, Kiru wanted to read stories about Africans falling in love. When she couldn’t find those books, she decided to write the stories she wanted to read.Kiru writes passionate romance and sensual erotica stories featuring African characters whether on the continent or in the Diaspora. When she's not writing you can find her either immersed in a good book or catching up with friends and family. She currently lives in the South of England with her husband and three children.Kiru is a founding member of Romance Writers of West Africa. In 2011, her debut romance novella, His Treasure, won the Book of the Year at the Love Romances Café Awards. She is the 2015 Romance Writer of the Year at the Nigerian Writers Awards.

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      Book preview

      Sacrifice - Kiru Taye

      Sacrifice

      Sacred Amulet, Part Two

      Kiru Taye

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and

      incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are

      used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any

      resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or

      persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Sacrifice

      Smashwords edition

      ISBN: 9781370312269

      Copyright© 2018 Kiru Taye

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be used

      or reproduced electronically or in print without written

      permission, except in the case of brief quotations

      embodied in reviews.

      KT Press

      www.kirutaye.com

      Blurb

      Mating an outcast requires a blood sacrifice.

      Ebube has rejoined his warriors on the hunt for the sacred amulet but his heart is left behind with Ugo. He's focused on completing his task and returning to her quickly.

      Ugo has found a new confidence since Ebube's departure. Her waking moments are preoccupied by thoughts of his return.

      She isn’t lonely any more as those who had previously ignored her now take an interest in her. After saving a child's life, she is now in demand for her skills.

      But the gods are not so forgiving or forgetful and they will demand a high price for Ebube and Ugo's disobedience.

      Prologue

      He defiled her! Osimiri's angry voice bounced off the cavernous walls of the chamber where the deities held court in Ụlọ Anyanwụ, the Sun Castle. A sacrifice offered by the people of Abazi to propitiate me.

      Statuesque and haughty, her body shimmered with movement like a waterfall.

      They are in love, Ala, the earth goddess said, casting an affectionate glance at her husband Anyanwu, the sun god who beamed a smile in response. Being mated was the logical step for them.

      What love? Osimiri rolled her eyes heavenwards in disdain. As the goddess of the sea, Osimiri didn't believe in love, after being betrayed by a lover. She was known to unleash her wrath on men at the slightest provocation, and along with her sirens had led many unsuspecting men to their ruins.

      As a guardian he is forbidden from mating with humans. He is guilty of breaking this Council's edict. I demand he be punished, she continued.

      This is not the time for him to be punished, Ikenga said. War is looming and all my sons are needed to prevent a catastrophe. An unapproved gate to the realms has been opened and they must guard it against the demon hordes of the rogue Okoni.

      Anyanwu, Ala and Ikenga were generally benevolent deities to humans. But there were others that that wanted total dominance over the earth realm and didn’t adhere to the principles agreed when the realms were separated.

      One of those was Okoni and the gods needed Ure warriors, the descendants of Ikenga to guard the earth against Okoni’s army.

      I agree with Ikenga. You cannot punish the errant warrior. We need him and his men, Anyanwu said. He was the head of the council of deities.

      Then I will take my ire out on the humans, Osimiri said. And prove to you that there is no such thing as love. Certainly not in the human realm!

      Chapter One

      An omen swooped over Abazi. It arrived from the south, over the delta swamps, up the great river and into the great forest.

      The air swelled, and the ground flexed.

      The wind held its breath. Silence rushed though the still trees, making creatures of the land and air to halt and falter in their motion, furs and feathers trembling.

      An enormous power surged, a mountain-like sea, hurled itself against the earth, making the land quake.

      The hairs on Ugo’s bare arms stood erect as a sliver of ice ran down her spine.

      As usual she had left home early as usual to do her chores, at that time between dark and dawn when the sky was like indigo berries dusted with glittering gems—a quick trip to the river first and now harvesting coco-yams in the farmland she had carved out of the edge of the ancient forest.

      A grave, heaving calmness swept through the thicket. A mischief of grass-cutters scurrying in the undergrowth froze, the peanut-coloured hairs on their bodies rising and quivering, as if struck with terror.

      Awareness prickled Ugo’s mind of something somewhere growing and morphing, approaching.

      As quickly as the stillness arrived, it departed. The animals scrambled, and birds burst away in a wild flapping of wings.

      Ugo examined the ground, the foliage as well as the sky. No clues could be found to the source of the alarming thrill she had

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