A debut urban fantasy with shades of Legendborn and Percy Jackson, the ancestral magic of this book is drawn from a real pantheon of African and Black diasporic gods, each with their own elemental domain.

HUNTER OF HOUSE OMARI
by Zora Squish Pruitt
Page Street YA/St. Matin’s Press, October 2027

After a mysterious fire destroys Exodus Omari’s house, she and her mom are forced to move in with her estranged, cult-ish uncle. But this isn’t the fresh start she’d hoped for, as her uncle’s secrets and a supernatural attack reveal that Exodus is godblood: a direct descendent of a Black diasporic pantheon and link between the worlds of mortals and gods—all memories that her mom erased from her mind to give her a normal life.

Her only hope to reclaim these memories, and her place in the family legacy, is to team up with a ragtag queer coven of jujuworkers. Together, she must work with her new friends to learn how to wield her rightful power—and discover who is out to get her—before the next monstrous assailant destroys her for good.

Zora Squish Pruitt is a genderqueer writer specializing in tales of magic and mystery in the American South. They graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design with a BFA in Creative Writing in 2021. They have been committed to the world of stories ever since, working as an Editorial Assistant and dramaturging for a fledgling theater production company. Originally from Birmingham, AL, they now live in New York City, where public transit makes them absolutely giddy. HUNTER OF HOUSE OMARI is their debut novel.