When the sky cracked open five million moons ago, the world was changed forever. From the breach came The Others—and in their wake, the ancient lands of Africa were rewritten by blood, by prophecy, and by conquest.
 
In this brutal new world, the Murder Men are legends cloaked in myth—an elite band of outcasts, killers, and spirit-touched warriors. Mammoth-Men with tusks like gods. Assassin-priestesses with jade blades and stolen souls. Lemur-blooded holy women. Silent killers from the dark corners of the continent. Feared. Hunted. Paid in gold and heads.
 
But even killers have a code.
 
When Jacinto Ibañez—once one of their own, now a reformed holy man—comes calling, the Murder Men answer. His daughter Ximena has been kidnapped and sold into the Houses of Heaven, a gilded palace of ritual sex, torture, and psychological warfare ruled by King Lepal, a tyrant twisted by colonial appetite and divine delusion.
 
As the Murder Men trace Ximena’s trail through cursed jungles, spirit-haunted wastelands, and a palace built on stolen blood, they uncover a deeper horror: the Houses are not just brothels, but ritual engines of power, siphoning feminine energy to maintain Lepal’s reign—and his connection to the Others beyond the stars.
 
Bound by guilt, coin, and prophecy, the Murder Men must face betrayal within their own ranks, ghosts of the wars they survived, and a girl whose bloodline may reshape—or doom—the world itself.