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An ages-old conflict between two enemy nations, Ardenia and Uris Udar, erupts anew when Udar raiders arrive to pillage the newly settled Ardenian lands near the border. Sarah Stuart, the oldest daughter of the frontier territory's most prominent family, finds herself faced with extreme danger in the midst of the conflict as the Udar arrive on the doorstep of her family estate. And as a bad situation becomes worse, Sarah - and her neighbors - wonder how the savage Udar could have penetrated the border of a much more technologically advanced nation.

Imagine a world in which a society with no moral compass, where nuclear families, individual rights, or private property ownership, sits side-by-side with a neighbor embracing all of the virtues of Western civilization, and the two have been in nonstop conflict for hundreds of years. Animus explores the battleground between the evil Udar and the righteous-but-not-perfect Ardenians, with descriptive and often graphic details that will compel the listener to keep rooting on the good guys and will keep you on the edge of your seat.

It’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, which is an intricate mix of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish backgrounds. But Grandma Bee is dying, a cough has settled deep in her lungs. The approaching end has her thinking about the members of her family she’s lost, especially one of her favorite granddaughters, Heli, who has been sent away to the Netherlands because of an affair with her white teacher.