Learning the murderous ghosts of her past are still alive, Nena defies her orders and kills the man standing next to her mark rather than the mark himself, eliminating a personal vendetta but creating fresh problems for Noble and the Tribe. She jumps at the opportunity to take her power back and no longer live in fear, preparing herself physically and mentally for years under the Tribe’s tutelage to become a trained assassin.īut on assignment in Miami to eliminate a federal prosecutor as a favor to an incoming High Council member, she realizes she’s been lied to about the fates of the men who killed her family in Ghana. It is within the Tribe that Nena finds her calling, or in this case, her call sign: Echo. Consisting of a High Council of elders from around the world, the Tribe focuses on advancing the African cause of becoming a united entity, which sometimes calls for extreme measures. As she slowly starts to trust again, Nena learns about the African Tribal Council from Noble and her new sister, Elin. I lost the privilege of her when she died with my family and my village…Like a ghost from the past, I pull a name no one has ever called me except Papa - his own special name for me.”Īnd so begins Nena’s “after” life: the adopted daughter of Noble and Delphine Knight, High Council members of a clandestine organization known informally as the Tribe.

Nearly feral in her mistrust of adults, Aninyeh struggles to answer a simple question put to her by Delphine: Her life of tragedy takes a turn when she crosses paths with Delphine Knight, a sophisticated and statuesque woman who takes the girl under her wing. Sold to a sadistic Frenchman, Aninyeh suffers unimaginable torture at the hands of evil men and indifferent women before escaping into the streets of Paris. Aninyeh’s nightmare begins when Paul kidnaps her and the other girls to populate his profitable human-trafficking ring. But then her father’s enemy, Paul, descends upon the village with his thugs to exact a terrible vengeance on everyone. Her “before” was in N’nkakuwe, where she lived with her chieftain father and three brothers. Nena Knight has always divided her life into two parts: before and after. Until the dark demons of her past return to threaten her carefully reconstructed world. With her adoptive parents and sassy sister by her side, Nena knows her place within the Tribe and unquestioningly follows orders. Her mission? Liquidating the enemies of pan-African unity, which she does with guilt-free gusto.

Brutally taken from her small Ghanian village as a child and forced to endure unthinkable horrors, the girl Aninyeh is now the woman Nena - top assassin for a powerful syndicate known as the Tribe. Nena Knight knows all about pain, but she also knows how to deal it out.

Yasmin angoe her name is knight