The rejections took their toll on me and about April/May, I was ready to give up writing altogether. I finished it mid 2019 and began querying Jan.

I’d had an idea for the protagonist for a few years but formally began writing Her Name is Knight, originally called Wudini, in 2018. It wasn’t until 2017 when I felt ready to “pick up the pen” again and renew my lifelong dream of being a published author. I’ve been working toward becoming a published author for over twenty years and had a lot of starts and stops along the way. Describe the road to publishing your first novel: She is extremely professional and by the book, but she is a fierce protector, not only of herself, but of those she comes to care for after her birth family’s brutal murder by some really horrible guys. Her adoptive family the Knights head up the Tribe and so Nena is also an heiress to the organization. Nena is a Ghanaian woman who is the top assassin for this secret business conglomerate called the Tribe. Yasmin Angoe -The interview Tell us about Nena Knight, the protagonist of your debut, Her Name Is Knight: To purchase Her Name is Knight, click on the following links: Amazon, Barnes & Noble & IndieBound Before she can reclaim her life, she must leverage everything she was and everything she is to take him down and end the cycle of bloodshed for good. Nena can’t resist the temptation of vengeance―and she doesn’t want to. Meanwhile, she learns a new Tribe council member is the same man who razed her village, murdered her family, and sold her into captivity.

Tasked with killing a man she’s come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her loyalty to the Tribe with her new purpose. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances.īut while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Author Interview + Book & Author InfoĪ smash debut novel from rising star Yasmin Angoe, Her Name Is Knight features an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family. Yasmin Angoe, debut author and winner of the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, launches her thriller, Her Name is Knight.

Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe