Banished from the heavens for falling in love with one of the creatures she was tasked to protect, Shange roams East Africa in human form with her lover Mijoga, who is imprisoned in the body of a lion. Together they serve the whims of the Spirits hoping to one day earn their freedom to love each other as mortals.

In The Blood Seekers, Shange and Mijoga find themselves aiding a desperate village whose inhabitants are disappearing during the night. What they find takes them deep into the bowels of the earth to confront an ancient and bloodthirsty evil.