The Seventh Cog of Ojuelegba

About this book

When sixteen-year-old Adaeze Okoye bleeds brass during Ojuelegba's Festival of Iron Tongues, she inherits her dead grandmother's brass-boned hand and a terrifying gift: she can hear machines lie. In a steampunk city sustained by stolen grief, colonial industry, and erased history, Adaeze enters the Brassworks as an apprentice engineer to hunt the Seventh Cog, a hidden engine tied to her bloodline. With a music-smuggling rickshaw driver and a former corporate architect at her side, she must navigate collapsing time, forbidden memories, and the attentions of an ageless director who needs her alive. As Ojuelegba begins to rewind around her, Adaeze faces an impossible question: what does a city owe its past, and who gets to decide the shape of its future?

Book details

Genres:

Magical Realism, Steampunk, Colonial Gothic, Historical Fantasy, Political Horror

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-18

Content rating:

R