{"product_id":"babalzs-tithe-hanarden-o-bleu-9781069709882","title":"Babalú's Tithe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe thought he was a healer. He was just the tax collector.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the high-rises of Lagos, Dr. Sèdégbé Alade fights a war between his surgical skill and a 300-year-old blood pact. The ancient King of the Earth demands a life every year, and Sèdé has run out of strangers to sacrifice. Now, the fever is coming for his wife.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Sèdégbé Alade has spent a lifetime scrubbing the dirt of the old world from his hands. From the hermetic, eighteen-degree silence of his penthouse clinic in Victoria Island, Sèdé commands the most exclusive medical practice in Lagos. He is a man of science, rationality, and immense wealth-the perfect modern savior.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the Alade dynasty was not built on medicine. It was built on debt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor three hundred years, his lineage has held a pact with \u003cem\u003eSakpata\u003c\/em\u003e, the King of the Earth. The terms are absolute: the deity grants the family prosperity, and in return, the family pays the tithe. One soul, every year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSèdé has managed to gentrify the ritual, offering the dying and the desperate to keep the ledger balanced. But the Earth is tired of loopholes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen his wife, Sìkán, falls ill with a fever that defies every medical protocol-a heat that rots flesh and weeps black blood-Sèdé realizes the bill has finally come due. The \"Alade Machine\" is powerless against a landlord coming to collect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the red dust of the ancient grove begins to stain the pristine white floors of his clinic, Sèdé must make a terrifying choice: watch the woman he loves be consumed by the god he serves, or become the monster his ancestors were and pay the tithe in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern medicine meets ancient blood. The doctor is in, but the debt is overdue.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanarden O. Bleu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1069709883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781069709882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanarden O. Bleu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Hanarden O. Bleu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148431827199,"sku":"9781069709882","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/babalzs-tithe-hanarden-o-bleu-9781069709882","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}