Amari

Amari is the teenage protagonist of the novel. She was born in Ziavi, a small village in Africa, where she was raised as the daughter of the village storyteller. Amari has a bright future in her village, and at the opening of the novel, is engaged to the handsomest man in town. She is supremely happy, surrounded by the love of her parents and her fiancé, Besa. All this changes when a group of strange foreigners with pale faces arrive at Amari's village. The white men unleash supreme destruction as they kill most of the villagers before setting the entire village ablaze. Amari is one of the few survivors, and she is chained up to the rest of the survivors and taken to a America for a slave auction. There, Amari is sold to Mr. Percival Derby as a birthday present for his son, Clay. Life as a...