The Phoenix Project (eBook)

She dipped her brush in midnight blue—and with each stroke, risked losing everything.

Caught between her father’s promise of stability and the raw defiance of her art, Nyambura must decide: abandon her passion or give up the only life that feels truly hers. From the suffocating quiet of her studio to the electric buzz of Nairobi’s streets, her paintings become battlegrounds where every crack in the frame mirrors the fracture in her own heart.

As rejection letters and harsh critiques land like blows, and her father’s insistent messages promise security or shame, she teeters on the brink—torn between the safety of a part-time law-firm job and the perilous freedom of the canvas. Each unfinished piece pulses with her yearning to be seen, to speak through color when words fail.

Under gallery lights, surrounded by strangers’ eyes that judge more than admire, Nyambura confronts the greatest question of all: Can a dream painted in defiance survive in a world measured by practicality?

Will she dare to stand fully in her truth, or will the weight of expectation silence her voice beneath the paint?

Read the first chapter free. (See Preview, above) But be warned—once you start, you won’t stop.