Bound By Blood And Gods

For centuries, five Nigerian families have served the Igbo deities, bound by blood and divine covenant. But when three families fled to America in the 1980s, desperate to escape their ancestral duties, the gods fell silent. For forty years, they believed they were free.
They were wrong.
In 2026, the covenant reawakens in the grandchildren. Chike Okonkwo, a skeptical law student in Atlanta, finds lightning answering his rage. Adaeze Nwosu, a depressed pre-med student in Houston, begins to glow like the sun. Kamsi Igwe, an exhausted New York nurse, sees the future in her dreams. None of them wanted this. None of them believed in the old gods.
But in Enugu, Nigeria, Nnenna Ezeh and Obinna Udeh have been waiting. Faithful servants of Ala and Ikenga, they know what the Americans don't: every hundred years, all five families must perform a ritual together. If they fail, the ancient chaos sealed away for centuries will break free. Now Obinna must travel to America to find three strangers who share his divine blood. Together, they have three months to return to Nigeria, master powers they don't understand, and complete a ritual that will bind them to the gods forever or destroy everything their ancestors built.
Between culture clashes and family secrets, between duty and desire, five young people must decide: will they honor the covenant or let it shatter? And when they discover the true cost of their grandparents' choices, will they be willing to pay the price for freedom, or sacrifice everything for balance?
A story of heritage and identity, ancient powers and modern love, where the past refuses to stay buried and the gods are done waiting.