Publisher's Synopsis
For generations, African American men and women have faced terrible hardships in the form of systemic racism, police brutality and other forms of discrimination. Many of them turned to Christianity as a source of solace, while others turned to Islam. Geraldine Lebrun, a young Haitian-American woman attending Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, has different plans. Fed up with both Eurocentric Christianity and racism, Geraldine turns to the Religions of her African Ancestors. In the old days, as Christianity and Islam spread across the Motherland of Africa, the Pagan Gods fled to the Ether to avoid Erasure. One among them stands out, Taal the Wayfarer. Ages ago, Taal was the Godhead of the Nok Kingdom in ancient Nigeria. A bisexual charmer and adventurous sort whose appetites for both Sex and Destruction knew no bounds, Taal was a Rogue Deity even among the Ancient Gods. When Geraldine and her Acolytes open the Gateway between worlds, Taal arrives on Earth. At first, Taal avenges African American men and women killed by racist cops, performs miracles and obeys Geraldine's every command, but the renegade African Deity has his own agenda. In an effort to vanquish racism and sexism by Supernatural means, has Geraldine made a deal with the Devil
