Mistress Komwono recognizes the craftiness and grit in Sogolon and extends an offer for Sogolon to be her ward, which Sogolon accepts. Sogolon unknowingly steals a talisman from one of the johns linked to an Ukundunka, a monster that protects the owner, and the owner's wife, the willful Mistress Komwono, comes to collect it, killing most of the prostitutes and Miss Azora. Sogolon survives by drugging the men that come to have sex with her and stealing from them, plotting to leave the pleasure house. Sogolon escapes and flees to the city of Kongor in the Northern Kingdom, where she is taken in by Miss Azora, the owner of a "house of pleasurable goods and services." Miss Azora gives Sogolon shelter and eventually forces her into prostitution. The plot follows Sogolon, who starts as a nameless young girl enslaved and abused by her brothers. The novel is told in a more straightforward linear style than Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Jordan in February 2019 before the release of the first book. The rights to produce a film adaptation were purchased by Michael B. The novel draws on African history and mythology, blended into the landscape of the North Kingdom and the South Kingdom, and the political tensions between these two warring states, as well as various city-states and tribes in the surrounding landscape. The novel tells a story parallel to, and intersecting with, the first novel. It is the second book of a planned trilogy, after Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Moon Witch, Spider King is a 2022 fantasy novel by Jamaican writer Marlon James.
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