When pale strangers enter fifteen-year-old Amari\'s village, her entire tribe welcomes them; for in her remote part of Africa, visitors are always a cause for celebration.
Beaten, branded, and dragged onto a slave ship,.
And in the time it takes a gun to fire, Amari\'s life as she\'s known it is destroyed, along with her family and village.
They are slave traders.
They are here to capture the strongest, healthiest villagers and to murder the rest.
But these strangers are not here to celebrate.
When pale strangers enter fifteen-year-old Amari\'s village, her entire tribe welcomes them; for in her remote part of Africa, visitors are always a cause for celebration