Ntombie was only 13 years of age when she was raped. things get even complicated when she's about to marry the prince of their village. Will kingdom and the king accept a non virgin as their bride? Get taken back to the era when south Africa had no white man, still cattles, no cellphones or any technology and still huts. "What is a beautiful woman doing out here all alone. Don't you know there are beast roaming around in this time of the night." She turned as she laid her eyes on the most handsome man she had ever seen. "thinking." She said as she threw stones inside the river in front of her. "Then we are alike. My father is impossible to understand." He worries about his father. Her sorrows were much bigger and more hurtful than his.

"You need to get married" he answered. What ? Obviously I'm still hung over, man I really need to stay away from alcohol, I'm starting to hallucinate. "Excuse me what ?" I asked again, I obviously heard wrong "I've set up an arranged marriage with a son from a wealthy business, his father is a very close associate of mine" he replied nonchalantly. Lerato is a 21 year old trouble magnet, her unpredictable life continues to put her in rather uncomfortable situations. Her family's company is drowning in debt and the only way to get it afloat once again is to marry the first man she's ever kicked in the balls.

Sheline is a pretty and ambitious young lady married to insecure Moyo. The desire for a journalism degree takes her from Bulawayo to Johannesburg where she lives with an aunt she hardly knows, vowing to keep her marriage while also studying. Bandele is wealthy and influential but he's also a bully. A lothario. Ladies in the neighbourhood, single or married, lust after him or so it seems. Everything that happens in his mansion is news to the community. When Bandele sets eyes on Sheline to be his wife, fireworks spark and the neighbourhood shakes. Will he win her over with his unconventional advances? Will she succumb to the piling pressure? What happens next threatens her degree, her marriage and even her life. But it also reintroduces Bandele to himself in a manner he never saw coming. #WattysNG2020

A girl, stolen at birth, was declared dead. She ends up living a life of pain yet bliss somewhere without knowing what she has grown up to know isn't true, & what she's about to find out isn't what will set her free. She gets the chance to know the entire truth and seems unable to handle it. Being lied to and being a victim of constant abuse, she can't decide whether to act out her thoughts and get a ticket to the graveyard or face life one more time and see what's in store for without her 'usuals' by her side. **** Start: September 2019 *** Highest rankings: #9 - somethingnew: March 4, 2021.