
Rise Before the Dawn
by C M Govender

‘Jemima tumbled into the grave, her head, sweating and bloody, thumping rocks in the soil. She waited for fire or fever to take her.’ Jemima is taken from her home by the sea to her grandmother’s cavernous mansion. Fascinated by a gallery of pictures that begin eerily to appear in real life, she makes dark discoveries about her ancestors amid increasing horror at her own destiny. Are the pictures controlling her? Will unseen forces bury the truth, and Jemima, for good?