Nyira and the Invisible Boy ( Paperback )

Nyira, a seven-year-old healer, watched slave hunters burn her village and murder her father.

Hiding in the jungle, she befriends a young gorilla, named Gord. The slave hunters capture Gord, forcing Nyira to give up her freedom to save his life. She is sent by slave ship to Haiti.

Ten-year-old Enriquillo’s tribe has lived peacefully—hidden in the Haitian mountains—for over three hundred years. French soldiers still managed to kill their chief—Enriquillo’s father, and his best friend is murdered by a local planter. Now Enriquillo plots revenge. He meets Nyira when he sneaks into the town market, and discovers she is the dark princess prophesized as his future queen. But Nyira is charged as a witch and condemned to burn. Will Enriquillo risk his people’s secret existence to save his love?