MAJI An Ayan Makur novel by Gill Omanyi

MAJI

An Ayan Makur Novel (Book 1)

By Gill Omanyi

"My model saves lives, Ms. Makur. Where the water rises above the ground-floor residential thresholds... where people drown."

Catalogue Overview & Synopsis

In the soaring, vertically stacked Nairobi of 2102, your altitude determines your survival. High above the smog line, corporate executives and political elites debate "Altitude Sovereignty" while infrastructure crumbles far below. Beneath the city’s shimmering sky-rail lines and atmospheric transit tubes, three million lives in the lower-tier wards are sitting ducks for the next El Niño pressure system—operating on dangerous, outdated flood prediction data.

Enter Ayan Makur: former dancer, disciplined martial artist, solopreneur operative, and protective mother. From her 87th-floor sanctuary in Sifa Towers, Ayan runs precision extraction operations alongside a tightly knit, hyper-competent team:

• Obera: Her formidable field partner, whose immovable mass, tactical genius, and quiet stolidness mask a devastating talent for close-quarters violence.
• Shanshan: The brilliant South B tech operator whose multi-screen rig runs circles around private, Hewa-spec corporate security and Jicho surveillance.
• Muchiri: The master hardware fabricator working out of a hot, solder-scented Gikomba workshop to build custom firmware bridges.
• Nyandeng Makur: Ayan’s mother, an uncompromising professional engineer whose structural archive annotations map the hidden spaces inside Nairobi’s sky-towers.

And anchoring the unit are Ayan’s two highly trained working dogs: Noir, a massive, sweet-tempered black mix whose scent work maps human stress signatures and perimeter guard rotations; and Usiku, a razor-sharp, protective menace of a canine whose diagnostic baseline reads adrenaline spikes before Ayan herself processes them.

When brilliant hydrologist Nekesa Nzisa hires Ayan to recover a stolen block-level flood prediction model—misappropriated during a bitter divorce by her ex-husband Farid Mwita and his well-connected consultancy—what begins as a targeted IP recovery spirals into a high-stakes conspiracy. Mwita has linked arms with corrupt Corridor officials and a shady infrastructure consortium to divert billions in municipal drainage funds. Guiding their defense is Murungi Guyo, a lethal, corridor-military intelligence veteran trained in the exact same brutal combat systems as Ayan herself.

From high-speed evade sequences across the Westlands Spine sky-rail to rooftop leaps over the bustling open-air markets of Gikomba; from tension-soaked surveillance runs in Runda Heights to bone-breaking clashes in the shadow of Kilimani construction sites—MAJI is a muscular, pulse-pounding Nairobi thriller. It blends high-tech corporate espionage, gritty martial arts, deep regional authenticity, and the unconditional bond between a woman, her team, and her dogs.

Full Publication Specifications

• Title: MAJI
• Series: Ayan Makur (Book 1)
• Author: Gill Omanyi
• Imprint: Dira Prime (A division of Dira Ebook Publishing)
• Publication Date: August 2026 (First Edition)
• ISBN: 978-9914-9448-2-2
• Format: Digital Ebook / Cellular-Optimized Architecture / Mobile Edition
• Page / Chapter Count: 42 Chapters (685 pages)
• Language: English (with authentic Kenyan Sheng & localized terminology)
• Genre: Speculative Fiction / Afro-Futurism / Action Thriller
• Primary Setting: Nairobi, Kenya (Westlands Spine, Kilimani, Gikomba, South B, Ngong Road, Runda Heights, Karura Forest)