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Unwritten Ground: Rains in Ifurika - Book Two
Paperback
Series: Red Plains, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Beyond Arusha's western gate, the known world begins to disappear. In Unwritten Ground, Book Two of Rains in Ifurika, Neema follows a trail of stolen chart sheets, murdered range runners, and a kidnapped cartographer into country where the Master Chart can no longer be trusted. Every broken marker points farther west-and toward a buried road someone is willing to kill to control.
What Neema finds beyond the mapped frontier is more dangerous than an empty wilderness. Hidden behind altered trails and the black teeth of the old landscape lies Mawela, a thriving settlement built around dependable water, ancient machinery, recovered metal, and the remains of a forgotten Ghost Road. Its people have survived by keeping themselves off every official map. But once Arusha learns Mawela exists, secrecy may no longer be enough to protect it.
Then another expedition arrives. Armed with disputed authority, survey tools, claim stones, and the language of public safety, Saban and his League-backed party believe hidden water cannot remain beyond the reach of the road. Neema is caught between two dangerous truths: knowledge can save lives-but the people who control that knowledge can turn a map into a claim, a guarded road into a border, and protection into ownership.
For Neema, the expedition is also a brutal test of the freedom she fought to win. Master Temba will not give her authority because of her father's name. Tawi needs a teacher, not another protector. Kito offers companionship-and attraction-without debt or obligation. And far away in Arusha, Omari is discovering that the political system he once hoped to reform has learned how to use his own ideas without him. Neema must decide whether independence means walking away from everyone...or learning how to lead without carrying every danger herself.
When red wind drives fire into Mawela and violent rain turns the burned hills into a flood, every argument becomes immediate. Families are trapped. Ancient gates begin to fail. The hidden road becomes a weapon and a lifeline at the same time. Neema must divide her people, surrender control, and choose which rescue she will not lead herself. But when the water finally breaks through the old world beneath them, the decision she makes may save Mawela-and change what waits for her when she returns to Arusha.
Want to go deeper into the history, geography, technology, institutions, maps, and surviving knowledge behind Red Plains? Continue your journey with The World of Red Plains Companion Guide, the reader's guide to the civilization, landscapes, recovered technologies, and centuries of history that shape Rains in Ifurika and the wider Red Plains world.
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