Oloye Karade’s Souls of Myrrh is a dark, twisting, supernatural tale that traverses the fantasies and realities of life and the characters that experience it. To begin with, our heroine, Deborah Hendricks, finds out that her beloved died in a car accident. Her already fragile existence shatters and she wanders aimlessly until found by a high priest who initiates her into the Orisha faith. Deborah soon becomes pregnant, and she believes it an immaculate conception brought about by her incorporeal lover. The priest divines the child as Oshun, a reincarnated goddess and together they journey to strange places in this world and others.