Overview
Some beauty is a gift. Some is a debt.
In the village of Achera, where the Omila River runs quietly past mud-walled compounds, a storm once delivered a child no one could explain - skin that seemed to hold light rather than merely reflect it, eyes that carried the river's own depth, and a beauty so uncommon that even the water seemed reluctant to let her go.
Eighteen years later, Nnenna's uncommon beauty has become both blessing and burden. Suitors arrive from every direction - a wrestler, a chief's son, a merchant's heir - each offering a different future, each asking her to become someone else's idea of who she should be.
Then a stranger arrives with a story more dangerous than any of them: that she is not merely uncommon, but otherworldly - a water-child, destined for a world beyond the only home she has ever known.
As the line between destiny and deception blurs, Nnenna must decide who to trust, what to believe, and - hardest of all - what she wants, in a village that has never once thought to ask her.
The Uncommon Beauty is a story about the price of being seen, the courage of choosing your own path, and the quiet, patient power of a river that never stops moving.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798178374917
- ISBN-10: 9798178374917
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.46 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
- Page Count: 202
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