Thriller fans will cheer Aninyeh every step of the way. Angoe expertly builds tension by shifting between her lead’s past and present lives. Nena Knight Series by Yasmin Angoe Nena Knight Series 3 primary works 3 total works Book 1 Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe 4. Meanwhile, after learning the same man who led the attack on her village has joined the Tribe, she plots her revenge. Things go awry on a mission for the Tribe when, instead of assassinating the intended target, a federal attorney with whom she has become close, Aninyeh kills another person. Aninyeh now lives in Miami, Fla., and is part of an assassination team that protects the Tribe’s interests, killing its enemies when necessary. There, Anniyeh was adopted by Delphine and her husband, Noble, the leader of the African Tribal Council (aka the Tribe), a business group devoted to uniting the various African countries into a strong economic force. Aninyeh eventually escaped and was found by Delphine Knight, who took her to London. Then, when she was 14, an enemy of her father, along with a group of barbaric men, ransacked her village, slaughtered her family, and sold her into captivity. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.Aninyeh, the captivating heroine of Angoe’s impressive debut, had an idyllic childhood as a chieftain’s daughter in a Ghanaian village. Hong Kong Filmart Postponed Due To Coronavirus Fears Event Moves Two Weeks Before Toronto

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Ink Factory and Eskridge are repped by WME.

Megha Parekh at Thomas & Mercer acquired Her Name Is Knight and another untitled book by Angoe in a six-figure preempt for publication in fall 2021. Layne Eskridge, who’s under a deal with Endeavor Content, and Ink Factory’s Michele Wolkoff are executive producers. The book is told in dual timelines between protagonist Nena Knight’s childhood in Ghana, where she escaped the horrors that abounded at every turn, and the present, where she avenges her family’s death while falling in love with someone on the “right” side of the law.

A first-generation Ghanian-American, Angoe won the 2020 Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for emerging writers of color for Her Name Is Knight while she was still in the process of writing the novel.