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Last published Mon, Feb 6, 2017
Unable to get over losing her husband in a bloody civil war years ago, Dr. Melissa Mpanda goes back to her home country in a bid to help her countrymen survive a second civil war and hopefully find the consolation that has evaded her for years.
However, this isn't a simple ethnic war, powers are at play, turning the wheels of greed and influence in a gratuitous show of violence and selfishness that will shake the country and all those who try to fight their hand of evil.
Under the backdrop of chaos, betrayal and mayhem the limits of human grief and triumph are pushed.
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