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description: After a devastating injury seventeen-year-old Hakeem Diallo is leaving basketball and his life in Brooklyn behind to spend the summer with his grandmother in Senegal. Three years have passed since the earthquake of 2011 when Keem witnessed his girlfriends apparent suicide in the deep. Weeks later he received a mysterious text that led him to believe Nyla might still be alive but her silence over the years has led Keem to believe that the girl he once loved is gone. Keem arrives in Dakar determined to put the past behind him but then Nyla unexpectedly returns and draws him back into her dangerous world. Once trained by The League Nyla is now a fugitive with a mission to expose their corruption. As Nyla grows more and more powerful she inspires both fear and awe in others. Keem cannot deny his love for her and yet he fears that Nyla has become a jinn--a demon. When The League finally hunts Nyla down Keems loyalty is tested. Is he willing to give his life for a girl who is no longer human?
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title: The Return
publisher: Rosetta Press