A Song of Wraiths and Ruin is a 2020 young adult fantasy novel by Ghanaian American writer Roseanne A.

[1][2][3] Brown's debut novel inspired by West and North African folktale was published on 2 June 2020 by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins as the first book in a planned duology.

[5][6] Seventeen year old Karina Alahari is the princess of Ziran, who lost her father and sister in a mysterious fire outbreak.

Malik and his sisters are poor refugees from the Eshra Mountains who are heading to Ziran to find a job.

[11] Lauren Sheehan-Clark in a review for The Daily Californian noted that it incorporates many fantasy tropes "while also breathing new life into a repetitive genre".