My Name Is Ama

Everyone in Accra knows Ama Brown. The gentle heiress with the soft voice and the softer heart. The girl who was raised to love, care, obey, and serve — and who lets the world walk all over her for it. Her stepmother humiliates her. Her fiancé lies to her. The powerful take her kindness for weakness. They have no idea what she really is. At fourteen, Ama watched a powerful man destroy her best friend and walk free. That night, she began training in secret — combat, infiltration, investigation — mentored by her late mother's ex-military driver. She kept a hidden Ledger of the untouchable. She smiles, serves tea, and forgives to their faces. And then, one by one, the guilty start falling — by the hand of a woman no one suspects, who leaves a small gold butterfly pin where she wants them to know she was there. But the deeper Ama hunts, the darker the truth becomes. Her mother's death was no accident. A shadowy Chairman has been watching Ama since she was fourteen — collecting kind girls like her, shaping them into weapons called Angels. Her stepmother is one of them. And when an honest journalist named Daniel falls for the woman he should be investigating, Ama must face the question her whole life has been building toward: Can love soften her ruthless side — or will it make her unstoppable? She was raised to be kind. She chose to be dangerous.

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