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He thought he was a healer. He was just the tax collector.

In 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.

Dr. 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,...