No Greater Love

By Kathi "Easy Writer" Macias

Description:

Orphaned four years earlier when their parents, active in the African National Congress (ANC) movement against Apartheid, were murdered, 16-year-old Chioma and her 15-year-old brother, Masozi, now live and work on an Afrikaner family’s farm.
When Chioma and Andrew, the farm owner’s son, find themselves attracted to one another, tragedy revisits their lives. Chioma escapes to join an ANC rebel band in her effort to survive and gain revenge for her family and culture. When cultures clash in life-or-death struggles, Chioma must choose between violence and revenge—or forgiveness and selfless love.
Loosely based on historical events and set near Pretoria, South Africa, in the violent upheaval prior to ANC leader Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 and his ascendancy to President of South Africa, this story of forbidden romance produces an unlikely martyr who is replaced by an even more unlikely hero.

Book Takeaway:

There truly is no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends....

Why the author wrote this book:

I watched closely in the 1980's as the violence and upheaval in South Africa escalated, leading to the downfall of Apartheid. In the midst of it I wondered at the effect on believers in that part of the world, and determined that I would one day write a story about it, opening with a forbidden interracial romance....