QUEEN SOPHIA MABHENA

Power, privilege and status mean nothing when you’re a woman in the Zimbabwean royal family. Since her hand in marriage was traded for some tenuous alliance as a small girl, Sophia has been under the oppressive command of her king and husband Emperor Thalente.

Despite being queen, he abused her from a very young age. Her hatred of men in power grew and grew with each violation, but alongside her love of all things beautiful and female manifested and blossomed.

If only it wasn’t a mortal crime to love another of the same sex in her country.

Now the mother of five gorgeous daughters, she will do anything to protect them from the same fate. Especially as she’s noticing her sexual preferences may have been passed down to one or two of her children.