Authorpreneur Dashboard – A D Koboah
Dark Genesis
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Life for a female slave is one of hardship and unspeakable sorrow, something Luna knows only too well. But not even she could have foreseen the terror that would befall her one sultry Mississippi evening in the summer of 1807. On her way back from a visit to see the African woman, a witch who has the herbs Luna needs to rid her of her abusive master’s child, she attracts the attention of a deadly being that lusts for blood. Forcibly removed from everything she knows by this tormented otherworldly creature, she is sure she will be dead by sunrise. Dark Genesis is a love story set against the savage world of slavery in which a young woman who has been dehumanised by its horrors finds the courage to love, and in doing so, reclaims her humanity.
Book Bubbles from Dark Genesis
The Chapel
When I decided to write this novel, I was thinking a great deal about dehumanisation, why people dehumanise others, the tools they use to do so, and the effect it has on the psyche. I also wondered whether or not it is possible for someone to find their way back from being dehumanised. The image I had in my mind before I even put pen to paper was of a superhuman being who has been dehumanised and I kept picturing this being at the burn ruins of a haunted chapel deep in the Mississippi woodlands, lost and alone and perhaps waiting for someone – or something. The only person I could picture who could perhaps understand the soul of this tormented being was a young woman who had also been dehumanised and known much suffering: A slave called Luna. This is where my story began and the excerpt is of the moment the paths of my protagonists cross.
