Author Description

<p>"Thrilling, tautly-written, pulls you right in and keeps you there! Plus: bonus trickster god!" Louie Stowell, author of Loki</p> <p>"An electrifying adventure that will leave you breathless." Tolá Okogwu, author of Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun</p> <p>Discover a fierce and fun story of one boy versus six gods, from a magical new voice in children's fiction...</p> <p>Kayode dreams of eating the forbidden fruit of the Orishas, so he can gain the power of the gods and stop them terrorizing his people. So when a fruit mysteriously appears in his path after the Orishas snatch his sister, he leaps on it.</p> <p>Surging with new and difficult-to-control powers, he joins forces with a shapeshifting trickster god and a vengeful princess to save his sister and put an end to the mighty Orishas. But each has more fearful powers than the last - and Kayode's stolen half-god strength won't last for ever...</p>