[2] Dossouye is a fix-up novel created of the short stories "Agbewe's Sword", "Gimmile's Songs", "Shiminege’s Mask", "Marwe’s Forest", and "Obenga’s Drum", the last previously unpublished.

[5] Orphaned at a young age, Dossouye becomes a soldier in the women’s army of the kingdom of Abomey.

In a war against the rival kingdom of Abanti, Dossouye saves her people from certain destruction; but a cruel twist of fate compels her to go into exile.

Mounted on her mighty war-bull, Gbo, Dossouye enters the vast rainforest beyond the borders of her homeland, seeking a place to call her own.

An alternate Africa like continent which goes unnamed throughout the novel The characters in this section are listed in their order of appearance.