'Echoes of the Past' is the first book in The Mask Of Idia series. It features the history of the ancient kingdom of Benin, an empire located in present-day Nigeria.Thirty -three years after Sarah I. Akintunde an accomplished physicist, witnesses the murder of her mother by the man she called her father, she's faced with panic attacks and vision like nightmares that leave her puzzled till her father sends her a black box containing an ancient necklace. She soon discovers that her ancestry is tied to the Iyoba of the ancient Benin Kingdom, queen Idia. Her father urges her to find the Mask of the queen, but little does she know the Godfather is watching her every step, wanting the mask but for a much different reason.