When Kofi, a young fisherman from the village of Abono, casts his net into the sacred waters of Lake Bosomtwe, he hauls up not fish but the spectral form of a bride in white kente. She calls herself Adwoa, and her kiss is cold as the deep. Drawn by a love that feels like memory, Kofi abandons his betrothed and his family to meet the maiden each night by the lakeshore. But the elders warn him: the lake claims what it loves, and the bride he now adores is the very woman he left at the altar years ago, drowned in her wedding finery. As the moon wanes, Kofi must choose between the living world and the ghostly embrace that promises an eternity of longing—and he will discover that some vows are stronger than death, and some love is a curse that keeps its promise.
An AI-assisted retelling of the love legend “The Maiden of the Lake” from Ghana.
