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The Darker Sentence
Paperback
Series: The Dark Sentence Trilogy, Book 1
ISBN13: 9789786802381
Publisher: James Amuta Company
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the morning of his seventh birthday, Collins Amadi's world alters irrevocably.
In the days that follow, grief is quickly absorbed into explanation. Elders speak. Traditions intervene. A version of events settles over the household like dust. It is accepted, repeated, and defended.
Collins does not accept it.
What begins as private doubt matures into quiet resistance. As memory is contested and silence enforced, a child learns that truth is not merely discovered - it is negotiated, shaped, and sometimes buried.
Set within a rural African community where ritual and reputation hold immense power, The Darker Sentence is a psychologically layered novel about inheritance, stigma, and the fragile architecture of belief. It asks what becomes of a family when grief is rewritten, and what it costs to remember differently.
The first novel in The Dark Sentence Trilogy.
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