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Throughout history, Wakanda was a kingdom walled-off to the world, thriving in secret. But under T’Challa’s rule, the Wakandans’ resources and technology are now available to other nations. Even nations such as Rudyarda, a former apartheid state. Some disagree with the decision to offer aid to a place with such a tortured past, but the Black Panther believes the people of Rudyarda shouldn’t pay for the sins of its Colonizers forever, and his rule is absolute. That is, until a former Black Panther is resurrected from the ancestral plane. Then, everything is uncertain. Because as everyone knows: there can only be one Black Panther in Wakanda. T’Chaka’s return to the land of the living divides reason from nature, a ruler from his allies, and T’Challa from his family. But as T’Challa—along with Shuri, Okoye, and Misty Knight—search for the cause, mysterious forces conspire to subvert his authority from without and within. Other dead men come to life. Old grudges find their way into the light. And when catastrophe strikes, a son must reckon with his father’s sins while a new generation of hero rises.
Authors
Geoffrey Thorne is an American novelist and screenwriter. Thorne was born in the United States and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. After winning Second Prize in Simon & Schuster's sixth annual Strange New Worlds anthology with his story "The Soft Room," he went on to publish more stories in several media tie-in anthologies as well as the Star Trek: Titan novel Sword of Damocles. As a screenwriter, Thorne has worked with Disney, Cartoon Network, STARZ, developing various properties. His TV work includes BEN 10: ULTIMATE ALIEN & OMNIVERSE, LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT and the hit TNT series', LEVERAGE and THE LIBRARIANS. Thorne is the co-founder and writing partner in GENRE 19, a studio he formed with artist Todd Harris in 2008.
TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is the award-winning author of The Wishing Pool & Other Stories and the upcoming The Reformatory ("A masterpiece"—Library Journal). She and her husband, Steven Barnes, co-wrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!" A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason.
