Fifteen-year-old Kola Damini thought his greatest worries were surviving crowded spaces and bickering with his diva of an older sister Kanyin-until his Mom mysteriously vanished without a trace. Like every other strange family, his workaholic Dad whisks them to her hometown of Lẹ́kò to continue their search, settling in the majestic home of their deceased grandmother-Damini Manor. Kola tries to adapt to his new reality without the only parent that ever truly understood, but with troubling rumors about his family manor in what his sister calls their Gossip Girl-esque school, he soon realizes-their manor could be haunted. When he and Kanyin find strange apparitions of shoes around the manor, they discover that wearing them allows their bodies to be controlled by an irresistible force. As rumors continue to circulate, one in particular about his Mom pissing off a dark force in college catches his attention, and he wonders if it-and the strange happenings at Damini Manor-are connected to her disappearance. Determined to uncover the truth, he joins forces with Kanyin, and they find unexpected allies in a cinnamon bad boy and their college-dropout nanny. But when their search is hindered by a threat to demolish their manor and the accidental unleashing of the dark force determined to destroy their mother and their town, he and his sister will have to decide what they are capable of and who they want to be without their mother's guiding light.
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