Daughter of the Dawn

Before history remembered the warriors, it forgot the daughters who lit the path.

Kinya is no ordinary girl. Raised in a village tucked between sacred forest and colonial encroachment, she grows up gathering herbs, decoding the whispers of women, and evading the weight of silence passed from mother to daughter. But as the fires of revolution begin to crackle across the land, Kinya finds herself at the center of an awakening - one that will test her spirit, shape her destiny, and challenge everything tradition told her to be.

From secret meetings under the mugumo tree to betrayals within her own bloodline, Kinya learns that womanhood in a colonized world is both a burden and a weapon. Guided by Ruguru, a wise healer haunted by exile, and shadowed by forces that want her silenced, Kinya must choose: obey and survive - or rise and become legend.

A Novel of:
Female defiance in a patriarchal culture

Intergenerational wisdom, resistance, and healing

Colonial-era Kenya through the eyes of the silenced

The coming-of-age of a girl who becomes fire