Tuigi’s life took a nose dive when her father returned home one quiet night with a hunting rifle. He had shot a man. The next morning Tuigi was to become trokosi, a wife to the gods, to atone for her fathers crime.
Tuigi refused and fled the village but not before she witnessed the villagers burning her entire family alive in their small hut.
Tuigi flees to the city and creates a new world for herself. She pushes her past behind, but the past refuses to stay buried. There are too many secrets, too many nightmares. She wants to forget it all but like a shadow these things trail her everywhere. Everyday is a struggle until she meets Bianca Everly, another woman with a scar but only bigger than Tuigi’s.
Tuigi had questions: What really made a woman? Was it a flawless physical beauty? Or was it her resolve to survive in a society that had nothing to offer a woman? Why did Tuigi sacrifice her parents? Could she control her destiny?
Tapping into Bianca’s strength and into the wisdom of Sister Mary-Ann, the nun who raised her in the small village of Abame, Tuigi begins her journey to redemption. She returns to the village and to the wrath of the villagers. Will they let her live or will she allow herself to die…