title: Children of Saba: Epic of Aphrike Book 1 (Volume 1)
author:  N K Read 
description: Born and bred in Kenya, and now living between Nairobi and Sydney, Australia, N.K Read (nee Mwiti) is a storyteller and journalist who has written for several publications and news outlets including the Kenya Television Network, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian UK.
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  Table of Contents
  A Preview of THE BROK EN EARTH: BOOK  THREE
  A Preview of WAK E OF V U LTU RES
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  To those who have no choice but to prepare
  their children for the battlefield
  
  1
  N as s un ,  on  the r oc k s
  HMM. NO. I’M TELLING THIS WRONG.
  After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the
  final shape of one’s being. I am me, and you. Damaya was herself
  and the family that rejected he