Not all people process a loss the same way. For Kristin Pettit of Turlock, it took nearly 15 years after the suicide of her first husband in 2004 for her to share one of her many feelings with the world.
The first in an anticipated duology, Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye joins the growing Afrofantasy genre alongside such popular novels as Tomi Adeyemi s Children of Blood and Bone and Namina Forna s The Gilded Ones.