Before chains. Before ships. Before history was rewritten in blood... there was betrayal.

Josiah Reed was a healer, protector, and son of the land until greed and fear delivered him to a fate worse than death beneath an ancient tree whispered about in legend. The men responsible believed time would bury the truth.

They were wrong.

Centuries later, the cicadas are screaming again.

As descendants of the betrayers begin dying under impossible circumstances, an ancient force awakens to erase a bloodline stained by betrayal. Moving between past and present, Cicada Man: The Tree That Sang blends African spiritual horror, ancestral vengeance, and psychological dread into a haunting story about memory, justice, and the things the earth refuses to forget.

Some songs are older than sin.

Some hunger never dies.