Princess Mmaeze is the regular girl next door but traditions of Udi insists she must be regarded as a goddess. Every four generations, the first daughter of the reigning king is installed as a goddess princess. She will abandon every form of human lifestyle and be required to exist as a god. She will be worshiped and on behalf the people commune with her fellow gods. She bears the burden of constantly cleansing the land of any evil. Mmaeze is not interested in any of these. All she wants is to be free to express her emotions as a girl. She doesn't want to be offered roasted goat head in the shrine; instead, she wants to eat choice pork in the palace. She does not want to be worshiped in a shrine by everyone; she only wants to be cuddled inside a mud hut by her childhood sweetheart, Izuchukwu. Meanwhile, a powerful witch just broke loose from the hold of the Council of Witch Doctors. She is bent on causing havoc in the kingdom. With a goddess princess not interested in her duties and a powerful witch at large, Udi has never had it this bad, yet it appears things can only get worse.

Sorrows of Udi 1

From being a silent observer of a domestic fight, this man turns to a double murder suspect? How did the bodies of his fighting couple neighbors end up inside his sitting room?

My Neighbors

A crippled young man discovers the blessings of ignorance when he finds out his wife's darkest secret. Tolu Badmus, crippled in a car crash six years ago becomes obsessively curious about what goes on inside a room in his apartment he has never entered since the accident that crippled him. His wife has an uncanny twice-a-week routine of entering this room. She would not tell him what is in there or what she does there. He begins to device a plot to solve this mystery. With the help of his younger brother he finds his truth, but his whole world begins to crumble. Everything he knows of his wife begins to seem like a lie. Her endurance and care towards him in the past six years begins to seem shallow and he collapses into a psychological trauma. If only he can dig deep into the deepest love they shared in the past, he might begin to scramble his way to redemption.

The other Room

Volume 2 of the collection of dark confessions containing the confessions; What We Did to Terry Monagan, Our Family’s Best Man and Not Just a Memory.

Secret Diaries from Hell 2

Volume one of the collection of dark confessions containing the stories, A Coward’s Regret, How I Sold My Soul and Someone Help Me Kill My Past.

Secret Diaries from Hell 1

Sorrows of Udi 5

What magnitude of hurt is too much to forgive? Reuben Nduma had been bullied all his life by one man. He got married to the woman of his dreams and this same bully began an affair with her and fathered his children. In a twist of fate, Reuben found himself to be the only hope for survival of this same bully after a bloody village raid by bandits. Will he forgive this bully on the spot and help him continue to live?

A Head For a Tooth

When crises broke in the tiny, crusty village of Gumau, Dami Koka and her colleagues found themselves lost in the vast savannah of northern Nigeria. Seeing her friends fall one after the other into the fatal hands of savage men and wild beasts, she began to rethink the essence of life –her life. But most importantly, if she must go back to her widowed mother in one piece, she must find a route to civilization before the beasts…and God knows what else find her.

To Live Again

In the mid 90's in dictatorship oppressed Nigeria, Idris Mudaba is being framed for what is the deadliest crime of the time, the regime wants him dead -no one can save him but...

Not a Child's play

Sorrows of Udi 2

Sorrows of Udi 6

Sorrows of Udi 3

Constance Matulele fell in love with a woman he thinks is the most beautiful thing that could breathe. Problem is, this love too heavy and fatally jealous and now puts the life of the loved at risk.

Boy meets Girl and I killed them

Sena Konato had a rare chance to meet the great Scottish explorer, Mungo Park. He saves and changes her life then promised to return someday for her. She will never stop hoping for his return, she will also never fail to keep her promise to tell his story.

Me and Mungo Park

Sorrows of Udi 4

In genocide period Rwanda, a young Stalin Matsepe has a role model in his father. Young Matsepe incidentally becomes the sole living witness to his father's genocide crime. It all eventually comes down between keeping his father's freedom from prison and his freedom from a badly pricking conscience.

Just for Justice

He goes from classroom to battlefield. From studying political theories to shooting anthills. He wants to be a seasoned academician...or a veteran soldier. Now in the middle of the most fatal month of the Nigerian civil war, his life is set on a slow and agonizing termination course. His salvation must be from a rare miracle and he needs it fast.

Sunset in the East

Abub makes an emotional return to his native village of Damakuli which has been left in ruins by the devastation of terrorism. His aim is to take his newly widowed sister back to the city but things turn up ugly. The terror cells are plotting artfully, anti-terror soldiers are over doing things and Abub would need more than a miracle to make him see the next sunrise.

This Town

Prince Ikan is Heir Apparent Prince of the kingdom of Iluji where the sun does not shine. To make the spell of darkness go away, kings traditionally offer slave girls in a 'grand sacrifice' to the gods of the land.

By the bank of the river called King's Flow, Ikan meets Sarie, a slave girl and could not resist her charm. Any romantic relationship between them is a taboo punished by hanging the slave girl but the Prince and the slave would hope the darkness will hide them and he swears to protect her with his life.

When a prophecy comes from the gods that Ikan will be the prince to bring sunlight to Iluji, he finds himself in a deathly dilemma. He must sacrifice Sarie to the gods or see the darkness continue forever and the dynasty's collapse.

Broken Cloud: The First Sunrise

A childhood experience of Sarah Ngulale haunts her into her old age, it causes her to do things weirdly, is she insane or just guilty?

Grey Heart

Nigerian politics is characterized by unbridled use of violence, political opponents are eliminated from the race by blackmail, the threat of assassination or outright assassination. When two childhood friends find themselves wanting the same office, one must eliminate the other and he has to do it the dirtiest way.

Shoot

Magnus Aribe goes from being an arch pacifist to a vet of a war he once described as the most senseless war in the history of mankind...this horrible experience was all it took.

What a War

In 2010, Joseph Dahr, a middle aged ex-soldier attempts to rescue from the LRA his wife and son who are abducted from his eastern DR Congo village, all he has is a rusty rifle he can use and an old friend he can trust. Dahr believes Rosa and Joe Junior would not have been abducted had he taken them to Kinshasa as Rosa had begged him to. He would hence, not forgive himself unless he brings them home by any means.

Ujasiri

Lazarus Mottaboh is stranded by night in the jungles of DR Congo. This jungle turns out to be settled by an extinction-threatened historic clan that needs the blood of an Ibezu to keep living. The Ibezus themselves are almost extinct and Laz is just one of the surviving few.

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Blood Line

January 2014

Ray Anyasi

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Books by Ray Anyasi

Sorrows of Udi 1

My Neighbors

The other Room

Secret Diaries from Hell 2

Secret Diaries from Hell 1

Sorrows of Udi 5

A Head For a Tooth

To Live Again

Not a Child's play

Sorrows of Udi 2

Sorrows of Udi 6

Sorrows of Udi 3

Boy meets Girl and I killed them

Me and Mungo Park

Sorrows of Udi 4

Just for Justice

Sunset in the East

This Town

Broken Cloud: The First Sunrise

Grey Heart

Shoot

What a War

Ujasiri

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