A red moon and attacks on village animals revive the legend of the Silwa in rural Egypt, along with memories of Nauman’s disappearance twenty-five years earlier. In 1995, five boys turning sixteen are drawn through an abandoned waterwheel into Jirol.
The kingdom lives with the consequences of betrayal, an exiled ruler and the death of a guardian wolf. A mysterious mark and a prophecy link the boys to an ancestral pact. Rania Atef Ayoub brings horror and adventure into a dark fantasy about friendship tested by danger and loss.