Prince Araya Mengesha

Yared Heywat is used to surviving in the shadows of Addis Prime, a hardscrabble city filled with broken technology and far too many rules. His only real family is his deeply anxious Uncle Moti and a fiercely loyal bionic lioness named Besa. To escape his isolated life, Yared uses his quick wits to dominate the underground augmented reality game known as The Hunt for Kaleb's Obelisk. But the virtual world collides violently with reality when a sudden rule change forces Yared to log into the game using his actual name. This single action triggers a devastating citywide attack, and in the resulting chaos, Uncle Moti vanishes without a trace. Suddenly, the wild bedtime stories his uncle used to tell about sky kingdoms and city-destroying monsters are manifesting in the real world. Realizing he is at the center of this waking myth, Yared must team up with Besa and a bitter gaming rival to find his uncle. You will plunge into an epic Afrofuturist adventure as Yared uncovers his true destiny in a forgotten, galaxy-spanning war.