Stolen from Africa

In 1788, Ardo Barkindo Jalo-a young Fulani warrior prince-is betrayed, captured, and sold into slavery in Spanish Louisiana. After surviving the Middle Passage, he is purchased by the Beaumont family and condemned to the cane fields of Belle Rive, where every lash is meant to erase the man he once was.But Ardo refuses to surrender his name, his faith, or the discipline of a warrior. Forced into New Orleans' illegal underground fighting pits, he defeats an undefeated champion and earns a new title: the Champion Killer. His victories bring him closer to Nia, the plantation healer who has become both his reason to survive and his reason to risk everything.When an act of violence destroys his carefully planned escape, Ardo is driven alone into the deadly Mississippi swamps. Armed with improvised weapons, gator-hide armor, and the skills of a lifetime, he must survive ruthless bounty hunters, trained dogs, rifles, snares, and the wilderness itself. With the help of an unlikely Choctaw alliance, he prepares to do the unthinkable: return to Belle Rive and free the people he was forced to leave behind.Stolen from Africa is a cinematic historical action-adventure about identity, resistance, love, and one man's refusal to let chains define him.

Pagina's: 350, Paperback, Independently published