She didn't ask for the mark. Four teal lines, arrived overnight, on the arm of a girl who hasn't even been initiated yet. The archive has a name for it: the Ekpe second sight. The Leopard's mark. And the Leopard does not give gifts without a reason.
Adaeze is back for Year Two at Ile Agbara, and nothing is the way she left it.
A professor from Calabar knows things about her he shouldn't. A boy raised inside the oldest secret society in Africa won't tell her what his own mark means. And the continental summit - every major spiritual tradition from Lagos to Cotonou, meeting for the first time in Cross River State - has drawn someone dangerous out of hiding.
She has one semester to understand a power that arrived uninvited, before whoever is hunting the summit's delegates turns their attention to her.
The Leopard is watching. It has already decided.
Book Two of The y mi Chronicles - seven volumes of Nigerian fantasy rooted in Africa's living traditions. For fans of Children of Blood and Bone, Raybearer, and The Gilded Ones.