At the Owaro Festival or Festival of the Dead, murderers are splayed before two agitating avatars—one of vengeance, the other of rebellion—for the one of vengeance to act as executioner or pardoner. When Anjorin, a psychic empath with a gift for emotional theft, seduces Iyabo, the last priestess guarding the ritual, their forbidden affair shatters the ancient balance. Exiled and powerless, Iyabo watches as the Avatar of Rebellion slithers free—its malevolence championed by none other than Anjorin himself, who dreams of exposing the gods and ending the opium of religion. But she anticipated this moment and has prepared the wild card: Atinuke, the daughter born of their union. No longer protected by her mother, Atinuke, an enigma and child of contradictions—the notorious spouse killer—returns to her pariah status, this time, firmly in the sights of the Avatar of Revenge—the very entity her mother’s misconduct kept her away from. Her flight becomes a harrowing odyssey of awakening, a revelation of dark truths: To stop the coming chaos, she must confront the very power and guile that destroyed her mother.

What will you do if you learn your birth happened because of an evil plot to strip your mother of her privilege, and every move you make advances this evil plot? A young girl discovers she is not what she thinks, and that her existence has grave consequences for her world. She is a child of contradictions—an enigma with an uncertain destiny, a woman to be desired but never ravaged (because her lovers' hearts give out, unable to withstand the sheer ecstasy). Thrice widowed, Atinuke (Tinu) is sent to the cloisters at Aye Dara to answer for her ‘witchery’. There, she learns who her real mother is and that as both a demoniac and a goddess, she is as cursed as she is gifted. More importantly, she must stop her heretic father's plans to bring about change