Raya and Achilles

Raya is a seventeen-year-old caught between her mother’s rigid expectations and her own desire for freedom. In Johannesburg, she finds laughter in friendship and fire in Achille, a mysterious student whose presence awakens both passion and danger when they uncover a grimoire that binds them to secrets older than love itself.

But France offers another path — and another boy. Nathanaël, thoughtful and disciplined, offers Raya a steadiness Paris embodies, in stark contrast to Achille’s intensity.

Torn between two continents and two loves, Raya must confront the contradictions inside herself — and learn that becoming whole doesn’t mean choosing one life over another, but daring to carry both