Rulah #24

When a young woman discovers she bears an uncanny resemblance to Rulah, the jungle goddess, she hatches a scheme to pose as the celebrated adventurer and swindle money from generous American donors—but Rulah herself gets wind of the fraud and makes a return trip to the city to set things right. Racing against time to expose the impostor before the deception spreads further, Rulah must navigate the dangers of civilization, from scheming con artists to hired thugs willing to eliminate anyone who gets in their way. It's a tale of justice pursued across two worlds when a jungle hero takes on crime in the heart of New York.

When the evil pigmy chief Zatu obtains the legendary Satan's Shoes—magical boots that grant superhuman power—he demands that Rulah watch him sacrifice an innocent young bride named Mugooti to unlock their full curse. Forced to witness Zatu's growing invincibility and his plans to use the shoes to dominate the jungle and finally destroy her, Rulah must find a way to survive and turn the tide. With cunning and desperation, she fights back against a foe who seems unstoppable.

When false reports claim that Rulah has married the Shah of Afka, the jungle goddess journeys to his distant palace to clear her name—only to discover that an impostor has been presented to the Shah, and that a sinister dwarf minister named Tamur has orchestrated an elaborate scheme to seize control of the kingdom. Trapped in the Shah's notorious Labyrinth of Love, where captives must navigate an impossible maze or face a grim fate, Rulah must outwit both the maze itself and Tamur's treacherous plans to save not only her reputation but her life.

Lilli Tucker's singing career hits rock bottom at a swank nightclub, but when Thompson Bates invites her to the jungle to study tribal music, she finds herself captured by a mysterious tribe of apes during a terrifying raid. Her voice becomes her unlikely salvation—and the strange audience she performs for transforms everything she thought she knew about herself.