Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki makes his series debut with Birth of Orisha, further cementing his legacy as a trailblazing voice in African speculative fiction. As the first African to win both a Nebula and a World Fantasy Award, and the first African Hugo finalist for Best Editor, he remains one of the most historic and decorated African figures in the genre's history.

Survival is a death sentence.

In the year 2447, Africa is a scarred landscape of forests of fear and mutated nightmares. Ife-Iyoku is the last bastion of humanity. It is protected by the Orisha and built on the bones of the dead. In this Afropunk urban fantasy, the price of living is your soul.

Imade is a healer who knows how to mend bones. She also knows how to break them. Her mother was forced into a marriage meant to "preserve the tribe." She died because of it. Now Imade understands the truth of the village she swore to protect.

Ife-Iyoku does not survive by grace. It survives by consumption.

The elders demand she fulfill her charge by bearing children. They call it duty. They call it survival. They expect a mother. They are getting a monster.

Imade turns away from the sacred order. She steps into a world where the horrors beyond the walls are no longer the greatest threat.

The Orisha bleed. Gods can be hunted. The line between protector and predator collapses. This is a world where African mythology collides with nuclear evolution. Vengeance is not a sin. It is a form of rebirth.

The Path of the Misfit

Imade rejects the order of Ife-Iyoku. She hunts the monsters outside the city walls and the ones hiding within them.

When Gods Bleed

Witness the birth of an Orisha. Divinity is mutable. Suffering is the condition of humanity.

The Price of Vengeance

A dark tale of blood rituals and the liquidation of a dying society. It is a world that demands obedience. Imade offers only fire.

"That if you hurt my mother," she paused and looked him dead in the eyes, "I will bathe in your blood."