From the hurried streets of Nairobi to the empty expanse of the great a?-?a?r?? al-Kubr??desert, CHILDREN OF SABA by Kenyan born author, N.K Read, takes you on an exploration of Africa never seen before. Get lost in the magnificent scenes of Africa’s vanishing landscapes, immerse yourself in the magic of Africa’s regal past and discover an unforgettable story that transcends the origins of the Earth.
After their parents are kidnapped by a sworn enemy who seeks their long lost and forgotten family secret, the Munene twins are forced into hiding at their grandmother’s remote farm on the edge of the Kenyan savannah. Under the growing cloud of darkness that seeks to envelop the earth, Mwenda and his sister Kendi meet a mysterious goat herder and are catapulted into the past, almost 3000 years back in time.
They find themselves in the magnificent Kingdom of Sheba where they’re plunged into a quest discover their family’s legacy – a mystery so primeval and unutterable that it has faded from the present-now.
They join forces with the fiercely beautiful Queen of Sheba and the elite Meroë Nthaka warriors in battling a dark, ancient enemy who seeks her throne and access to the twins’ secret.
Caught in throes of an epic conflict, the twins realise that that their quest involves the key of Sämay, a most powerful object that their ancestors – the enigmatic race of the First Men – believed could forge a path between the divine and human.
The twins eventually learn that they are the only two people on the earth – past, present and future – who can sway the outcome of a foreordained chain of cataclysmic events that are linked to their family’s present predicament and could catastrophically affect all three dimensions of time.
‘Children of Saba’ recreates the glory and majesty of a prodigious continent, appealing to lovers of the Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings series. It is the untold story of Africa, one that re-imagines the legacy of a vast ancient race responsible for throwing giant shadows upon the dawn of time. It is a chronicle that leaps beyond the boundaries of the present and transcends the parameters of the origins of the Earth.
