Colours, John & Ayanna, is the first book in Obayani's family saga and is set in the middle passage, Africa, Europe, and North America.This gnashing tale's narrator is Steven Baylor, the Baylor patriarch slave owner John Baylor's, doctor brother in 1837.The tale is recounted through Steven's narrative, and paints a macabre canvas of Ayanna, the Baylor matriarch's capture and bewitchment of the entire Baylor Manor plantation.