Blood Tree Book 1, is the first book of Obayani's the Blood Tree Quartet. It turns the soil and plants the seeds of this family saga, and introduces the reader to the people, and personalities, of the Baylor clan, which lasts for generations. The narrator is Steven Baylor, the Baylor patriarch slave owner John Baylor's doctor brother, who paints a macabre canvas of the bewitchment of the entire Baylor Manor plantation by Ayanna, a captive woman.