Bone Garden of Amari

The Bone Garden of Amari
A Speculative Horror Novel by Philip Stengel

In the heart of the Great Rift Valley, where ancestral memory seeps through the soil and silence carries the weight of the dead, Amina returns to bury her grandmother-and finds herself caught in a curse older than colonial rule.

As drought withers the land and whispers rise from the graves, Amina-a child of both Kikuyu and Luo bloodlines-uncovers a buried history of betrayal. Her ancestor, Amari, once traded sacred knowledge to colonial forces in a desperate bid to save his family. But the cost was catastrophic: a massacre that awakened the Ndugu, spectral enforcers of ancestral justice who now haunt the living through bone, memory, and time itself.

With the Bone Garden growing-an unholy tangle of skeletons that refuse to rest-Amina must navigate a dying land, unearth the truth of her lineage, and face a reckoning centuries in the making. To heal the past, she must survive it.

A novel of folklore, generational trauma, and spectral horror, The Bone Garden of Amari is a haunting tale of identity, justice, and the terrible price of memory.