In this thrilling new take on the superhero origin story, one young man finds himself in the middle of a war between powerful gods, and tasked with saving the city he holds dear.

Jack Boniface is having a weird day. Considering himself above the voodoo beliefs of his father and community back in New Orleans, Jack left his hometown to pursue his intellectual dreams at NYU. Normally, Jack is confident in his ultrarational approach to the world, but this morning he swears he can sense things moving in the shadows and keeps having the weirdest daydreams about a hideous monster.

Below New Orleans lies the Deadside, where Baron Samedi rules over a pantheon of Lwa, voodoo gods. However, when Freda—one of the most beloved Lwas in New Orleans and one of Samedi’s wives—goes missing, the Deadside falls into chaos. Freda’s absence negates a decade-long agreement to protect New Orleans from unnatural violent death, resulting in a power struggle that spills over into the human world.