Hooves in the Dark (eBook)

Wanjiru Kimani’s flight touches down under an indifferent Nairobi sky, but the city that once raised her conceals a terror braided with memory and blood.

She returns to her mother’s decaying ochre house only to find peeling walls, the stale scent of rot, and a leather-bound journal whispering of unfinished rituals. Hooves scrape the pavement at night, dragging echoes of ancient drums through silent rooms as shadows coil in every corner.

Venturing into the abandoned slaughterhouse on the city’s edge, Wanjiru uncovers rumors of a faceless “Butcher” and squatters haunted by disappearances. Each revelation binds her tighter to a curse her mother tried—and failed—to seal, forcing her into a desperate ceremony beneath a blood-red moon.

When the house collapses and she emerges humming a Kikuyu lullaby in a psychiatric ward, the line between survivor and vessel has blurred. Can she silence the drums of "Ngai wa Nyamu" before they consume her entirely?

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