Rehema

Written as a play, Rehema is a romantic tragedy involving two lovers, Antony and Rehema. Just like Romeo and Juliet, they are separated by well-meaning relatives.

Antony and Rehema fall in love and want to marry. But Rehema's former lover, Kennedy, returns home from school and also seeks her hand in marriage. Rehema rejects his love and reveals she is engaged to another.

Kennedy struggles with her rejection and becomes depressed. His father, Sir Edwin, devises a scheme to kidnap Rehema's mother, and then demands a ransom. Rehema elopes with Antony to escape marriage to Kennedy. Her father then dies by drowning in a river. Rehema's younger sister, Tracy, believes their father was killed by Sir Edwin, so she plots revenge against him.

Antony meets up with his former girlfriend, Linda, who still wants to marry him, but Antony is married to Rehema. Antony's father kills a man in the streets who happens to be Linda's father. He denies the charges and encourages Antony to marry Linda.

The course of love has gone wrong, and results in even more violence. Will anyone have a happy ending?

(About the Author)

Cavin Tawo Odhiambo is from the village of Bondo, Kenya. He previously worked with nongovernmental organizations in HIV care and treatment as a social worker, but currently works as a data clerk. This is his first book.