
What do your characters have to overcome in this story? It’s the first time they’ve come across a substantial threat to the family and so she’s got to stop what’s going on to preserve this life she went to hell and back to have. There is just a deeper dive into Nena’s relationships with the people from the first while they work together to figure out who is coming for the Tribe, and the Knights, like this. They need to gel as a whole unit because Nena is bringing together two separate sides of her life to make it whole. YA: In this book, Nena and the other characters are dealing with the repercussions of what transpired in the first. What would you like people to know about the story itself? But closing in on the truth, means risking everything she was tasked to protect-even if it means facing off with an enemy she never saw coming. As this new threat closes in on her own family, Nena must root out the danger. As the threats escalate, Nena starts to suspect a different kind of enemy at play: someone on the inside, determined to destabilize the Tribe and her father the Tribe’s leader. Violent sieges by a paramilitary group throws the Tribe into chaos plaguing the Tribe’s territories and undermines its mission. YA: Elite assassin Nena Knight, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage for the Tribe, the powerful African business syndicate, an organization that supports the African people-until it turns on itself. Learn more about Yasmin on her website, and follow her on Twitter. When not writing or editing, she is watching movies, engrossed in a new audiobook, or daydreaming about the fact she probably should be writing. She was a middle and high school English teacher and currently works as a developmental editor and sensitivity reader in South Carolina.


In 2020, she received the Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color and is a proud member of SinC, Crime Writers of Color, and, Southeast Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. Yasmin is a first-generation Ghanaian American. Determined to survive devastating loss and mete out justice, Nena is a heroine readers will embrace.” A lethal tale of an all-but-superhero whose author promises that ‘in this story, there are no heroes.’” Publishers Weekly says, “This action-packed novel drives toward an explosive conclusion.

Kirkus calls the novel “A second round of action-packed, high-casualty intrigue for professional assassin Nena Knight. Book one, her debut novel, is Her Name is Knight.

Congratulations to Writer Unboxed contributor, Yasmin Angoe, on the September 13 th publication of her novel, They Come at Knight, which is book two in the Nena Knight series.
