Ark of Remembrance — Book One

In the heart of the Sahel, a city of the future rises—brilliant, defiant, and built on memory.

Zanzara is a place where technology and ancestry coexist, where innovation hums through sunlit canals and history is not buried, but honored. At its center stands the Ark of Remembrance, a revolutionary system designed to preserve four hundred years of Black American history—not as static records, but as living, immersive experience.

Zahra Sombi is the Ark’s creator and guardian. Brilliant, driven, and fiercely protective of what she has built, she believes memory is more than the past—it is power. The Ark is her life’s work, born from love, loss, and an unshakable belief that history must be protected from distortion.

But when the Ark begins to fracture, Zahra realizes the threat is not mechanical.

It is intentional.

A silent digital force known as the Hush is infiltrating the system, reshaping memory from the inside—softening truth, muting resistance, and turning history into something easier to forget. As political pressure mounts and rivals circle, Zahra is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: that the very thing designed to preserve memory may become the tool of its erasure.

Her only chance lies with Elijah Jamison, a brilliant cybersecurity expert whose presence unsettles her as much as it challenges her authority. Their past is complicated. Their chemistry undeniable. And as they are drawn together by danger, mistrust, and desire, Zahra discovers that some battles are fought not just with code and conviction—but with the heart.

Daughter of the Sahel is the electrifying first novel in the Ark of Remembrance trilogy—an Afrofuturist sci-fi romance that blends high-stakes intrigue with enemies-to-lovers tension, exploring what it means to protect history, claim identity, and choose love in a world determined to rewrite the past.