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Mauritia: Blood In The Spice Wind
Paperback
Publisher: Keshav Kumar Phokeerdass
Published: May 23 2025
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Mauritia: Blood in the Spice Wind
by Brinda Phokeerdass
In a land where memory is power and the soil never forgets, two bloodlines bound by fire must choose between silence and rebellion.
1705. On the volcanic island of Mauritia, a Dutch governor claims dominion over land soaked in spice and blood. But beneath the scent of cinnamon and the gleam of empire, the earth listens. And it remembers.
From the ashes of slavery and the whispers of ancient spirits rises Kalyssa, a descendant of Maroon resistance, marked by the land's oldest magic. When she crosses paths with Isaak, a reluctant heir to colonial rule, their forbidden connection ignites a reckoning centuries in the making.
As the island stirs, forgotten guardians awaken, spectral drums echo through the forests, and a prophecy sealed in salt, ash, and bone threatens to unravel the empire from within.
Mauritia: Blood in the Spice Wind is a sweeping decolonial fantasy-where resistance is memory, names are spells, and the future is rooted in fire.
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