THE COUPLES
Three books. Three love stories.
THE TRUTH
Tokoloshes are protectors. The myth that they are evil is exactly that a myth. The Shoshovas are what your grandmother was actually warning you about.
THE CRISIS
No new mating bond in over a hundred years. The race is weakening. A Tokoloshe can only mate with another Tokoloshe or the near-extinct Sangoma.
THE THREAT
Shoshovas: Tokoloshes infected by an unknown virus that drives them to evil. The Human Hunters exploit the chaos. The Council holds the line barely.
THE SERIES
Three books. Three love stories. Zimbabwe to Namibia. Each heroine finds her way into a world that was never supposed to let her in.
THE ONES THE STORIES BELONG TO
The Leads.
BOOK 1 · HERO
TOKOLOSHE
Six
A Tokoloshe who has spent his life protecting a world that doesn’t know he exists. Keeps his true nature hidden from the one person he actually cares about his human sister, Imari. When the mating bond finally arrives, it arrives as the most inconvenient possible complication.
Hero of Book 1: Finding My Tokoloshe
BOOK 2 · HEROINE
TOKOLOSHE · SEEKER · VAGAVAGA TROOP
Sasha
Six’s cousin. A Seeker a Tokoloshe with the ability to find anyone she has crossed paths with. Newly appointed Team Leader after defeating 43 challengers. Childhood best friend of Thami. She has wanted Dej for longer than she will admit. What she does not know is what it is costing him to keep his distance. Set in Namibia.
Heroine of Book 2: Claiming My Tokoloshe
BOOK 1 · HEROINE
MEGA SANGOMA
Imari
Dej’s adopted sister except she isn’t just human. Imari is a mega Sangoma, one of the rarest beings in the Tokoloshe world. She can heal, destroy, or bring the entire Council to its knees. She doesn’t know any of that yet. Set in Zimbabwe.
Heroine of Book 1: Finding My Tokoloshe
BOOK 3 · HEROINE
TOKOLOSHE · VAGAVAGA TROOP
Bo
Sasha’s sister. Runs three times a day not because she has to, but because something in her won’t stop moving. Trains daily with Mufaro. Has been watching him show up, quietly, consistently, across two books. Her story is Book 3.
Heroine of Book 3: Keeping My Tokoloshe
BOOK 2 · HERO
TOKOLOSHE ALPHA · DESI TROOP
Dej
Alpha and heir to the Desi troop. Dark curly hair, hazel green eyes with streaks of gold. He has been working undercover with the Human Hunters for ten years an inheritance from his late father that could destroy him. He knows he is slowly turning Shoshova. He knows exactly what that means. He is going to make Sasha break the bond before she finds out. Set in Namibia.
Hero of Book 2: Claiming My Tokoloshe
BOOK 3 · HERO
TOKOLOSHE · TEAM LEADER · DOCTOR
Mufaro
Team Leader and doctor. Runs the medical centre on the Vagavaga compound. Wears his coat and a goofy grin with equal ease. Has been there steady, capable, quietly present across two books. Book 3 is his.
Hero of Book 3: Keeping My Tokoloshe
INNER CIRCLE
THOSE CLOSEST TO THE LEADS
Close Allies.
SUPPORTING
TOKOLOSHE · TEAM LEADER
Uncle Gegi
The only brother Sasha’s mother had. A Tokoloshe Team Leader who shows up at the trials, watches from the sidelines, and sends the cavalry if you are two minutes late. The kind of uncle who does not say much but whose presence says everything.
SUPPORTING
TOKOLOSHE · VAGAVAGA TROOP
Thami
Sasha’s childhood best friend. Zion’s mate. She knows exactly what the pull feels like wanting to run towards someone and away from them at the same time. When Zion left, she deteriorated. The bond does not negotiate. Sasha remembers that.
SUPPORTING
SANGOMAS · MOTHER & DAUGHTER
Mau & Chu
Mau is Tobias's wife, Imari's close friend and the sweetest Sangoma Sasha knows. Chu, their daughter, is a child Sangoma who can telepath with her baby brother TJ. Opinionated, quick, always getting into something, and the future of something larger than she knows.
SUPPORTING
TOKOLOSHE ALPHA
Sophie
A petite blonde Tokoloshe Alpha from North America. Her twin brothers are both Seekers. She answers to herself which in this world is never a small thing.
SUPPORTING
TOKOLOSHE · TEAM LEADER · DESI
Tee
One of the oldest Desi Team Leaders. The only person who knows about Dej’s decade-long undercover work with the Human Hunters, a secret inherited from Dej’s late father. That kind of trust is rare and earned over a lifetime.
SUPPORTING
ELDER · SANGOMA
Gogo
A Sangoma Elder. Convinced Six to let the Sangomas train alongside the Tokoloshe troops. The kind of presence who gets things done without raising her voice, and whose wisdom Tobias quotes long after she has left the room.
SUPPORTING
HUMAN HUNTER · LEADER
Ahmed
Leader of the Human Hunters and Dej’s undercover contact for ten years an alliance inherited from Dej’s late father. Arabic, hazel-brown eyes, dark curls held back by a black bandana. Practical about destruction. The smirk when Dej says burn it down says everything.
SUPPORTING
TOKOLOSHE ALPHA
Zion
Tokoloshe Alpha and Thami’s mate. Flamboyant dresser, sharp wit, on-the-nose jabs. He is the one announcing at the trials like he was born for a microphone. Dej’s friend which is a harder category to earn than it sounds.
SUPPORTING
GUIDER · SANGOMA
Tobias
A Sangoma Guider. Mau’s husband and father to Chu and baby TJ. Light eyes, quiet magic. One of the few Sangomas in a world where they are nearly extinct which means his presence in the Vagavaga compound is never accidental.
SUPPORTING
TOKOLOSHE · DESI
Cornelius
Present when Dej is at his most critical too much blood lost, barely conscious, barely holding on. Cornelius stays. Offers water. Keeps his voice low. The kind of loyalty that does not require explanation or acknowledgement.
THE COUNCIL
THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF THE TOKOLOSHE WORLD
The Council.
Three seats. Three Alphas. The Council governs the Tokoloshe world managing the Shoshova threat, the declining mating bonds, and the politics of a race that is running out of time. Their decisions carry weight. Not all of them are wise.
Alpha Soni
TOKOLOSHE COUNCIL · ELDEST. SALT-AND-PEPPER FADE, DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL KENTE. STILL WAITING FOR HIS MATE, THE TOKOLOSHE CALL HIM THE SILVER FOX.
Alpha Sheila
TOKOLOSHE COUNCIL · SECOND ELDEST. UNIMPRESSED. POLITE ENOUGH TO LET A MEETING PROCEED, BUT ONLY JUST.
Alpha Mariem
TOKOLOSHE COUNCIL · TALKS A BIG GAME. DEJ HAS NEVER SEEN HIM BACK IT UP.
ANTAGONISTS
THOSE STANDING IN THE WAY
The Opposition.
ANTAGONIST
TOKOLOSHE ALPHA · VILLAIN
Chimwemwe
A Tokoloshe Alpha operating outside every rule that holds the world together. He attacked Thami. He told Mariem about Imari. He sits in a cell across from Dej and still manages to look like he is winning. He is the kind of threat you do not underestimate twice.
ANTAGONIST
HUMAN · MILITARY
The Commander
Military. Running the experimentation programme. He does not see Tokoloshes as people he sees subjects. The kind of threat that operates behind institutions and paperwork, which makes him harder to kill than Chimwemwe.
WHO’S FIGHTING FOR WHAT
Four Sides.
THE TOKOLOSHES
Protectors. The truth behind the myth your grandmother warned you about. They guard the human world from the Shoshovas quietly, at great cost, without credit. Their race is weakening. The mating bond is the only thing that can save it.
THE SHOSHOVAS
Infected Tokoloshes. A virus that strips away everything they are and replaces it with an uncontrollable drive toward evil. Not the enemy by choice by infection. The most tragic threat in the series. And the most dangerous.
THE HUMAN HUNTERS
Humans who hunt Shoshovas but operate on one belief: they cannot tell the difference between a Shoshova and a Tokoloshe. To them, the threat is the same. Which means the protectors and the infected are equally in their crosshairs.
THE EXPERIMENTERS
Military. Institutional. They are not hunting Tokoloshes out of fear they are studying them. Cataloguing them. The Commander runs a programme that does not see Tokoloshes as people. It sees subjects. That distinction is what makes them the most dangerous human faction of all.
WHAT READERS SAY
Readers are saying.
Kristen, Goodreads
I cried. I yelled. I reread entire paragraphs just to feel them again.
Marcus, Goodreads
Imari is no damsel, she's a rising storm.
Alina, Goodreads
A bold story that dares to ask: What if the monster is the hero?
Common Questions
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