Steven's Clothes — Kambon Obayani

Blood Tree, Book Three, Steven's Clothes, is the third book of Obayani's saga, The Blood Tree Quartet. This wrenching episode is set in New York, like Book Two, but narrated by the spirit matriarch Ayanna's great grandson, Steven. Through a torrid letter to his cousin/sister Lori, Steven recounts his soiled relationship as a child with his insane, abusive mother, Angie, the gnarled years as his father's unwanted son, sent to a military school, designed to crush his homosexual tendencies, and the dungeon of scars he carries after losing the love of his life and those with whom he feels connected. Steven, combating the Baylor tradition, realizes his opponent, as a warrior, is the person who has carved the Baylor's destiny; Ayanna!