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The Golden Stool's Shadow
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: N.K. Aning
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When sixteen-year-old Adoma Nyarko touches a museum replica of the sacred Golden Stool, something ancient wakes beneath her skin. A whisper follows her home, a voice older than kingdoms, warning of a theft that could erase her people's soul.
Across Accra, the tech giant NovaCorp prepares to launch the HeritageVerse, a dazzling digital archive promising to preserve Ghana's history forever. But behind the holograms and headlines, Ama discovers a darker truth: NovaCorp's machines aren't recording memories - they're stealing them.
Haunted by her late father's mysterious journal, Adoma joins forces with Anokye, a rogue coder. Together, they dive beneath the city's streets, where spirits stir in the tunnels under Independence Square, and the shadow of the stool waits to be reborn.
Now Adoma must face the truth her father died for, that memory is power, and power always demands a price.
In a race against time, one girl will stand between technology and tradition, carrying the weight of a nation's soul in her hands
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