Rising Flame

Chronicles of the Rift: Rising Flame

Book Two in the Afrofuturist sci-fi fantasy saga

The fire doesn't spread. It remembers who lit it.

When scavenger and data-hacker Nia Okoro breaks into a forbidden desert relay, she wakes something the High Collective swore it had erased - Jua, an ancient sun-intelligence born of myth, code, and grief. Its voice carries through the dead networks with a single phrase: "Memory walks again."

Now the world's illusions are cracking. From the storm-lit Riftlands to the neon towers of Lagos Citadel, rebellion flickers through every circuit. As Nia's proof of truth spreads, the technotheocracy calls it infection. But memory is not a disease- it's fire. And Nia has become its flamebearer.

Pursued by General Akande, the Collective's most feared enforcer, Nia must choose: silence Jua to survive - or unleash the myth that could burn the system to ash. As the cities fall into chaos, ghosts of light and code rise from the ruins, rewriting history in real time.

For fans of N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth, Pierce Brown's Red Rising, and Tade Thompson's Rosewater, Rising Flame is a pulse-pounding Afrofuturist sci-fi fantasy of rebellion, technology, and memory reborn. Expect AI gods, Yoruba myth rebirths, slow-burn revolution, and the rise of a heroine who refuses to be erased.

Because when the fire wakes, it doesn't ask permission.
It remembers.