"Where do you see yourself in five years' time?" Thero confidently stood in front of her class, in matric and listed almost all her fantasies. 'Pass matric, go to university and study marketing, get a job, get married and travel the world. I want to wear designer shoes, have designer bags, wear the latest clothes, wear expensive wigs and not even groan in pain when I have to buy those luxurious, perfect smelling perfumes.' Her teacher had smiled at her after she was done, 'big dreams huh?' 'Leather dreams ma'am.' Five years later, she only had matric, no university, no marketing degree or diploma just no money for the leather dreams she once had. She was hustling, sharing a bedroom with her mother while her baby sister popped kids like she was popping smarties and her brother smoking anything under the sun, and smelling like he last bathed when Jesus was still walking on earth. She had her boyfriend who loved her to the moon and back but she wasn't fulfilled. She needed more, she needed to have her leather dreams, come rain or sunshine... Even if it means sleeping with the devil... Will she finally live her dreams, or will she live to regret it? Find out! 💛 All rights reserved © Matshidiso Bella Makoea

Letago Molepo - A sweet, empathetic christian teacher found herself in the trenches after being stood up on the day of her Lobola negotiations. With a sour heart, she booked into a hotel to have a drinking spree to try and dodge her sad life There she met an attractive stranger whose company she enjoyed and wished she could bottle it in and take home as souvenir and the strange man with a great sense of humour felt the same. After sharing a steamy night of pleasure, he was all she could think about. Bogoshi Mogale - A funny, unserious man who found humour in almost everything was scammed of his hard earned money leaving him almost penniless. Going back home was not an option and after meeting the pretty strange lady with a charming voice at the hotel he had booked in to blow off some steam, he figures there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Their relationship starts off promising but rocky until they learn how to steady it and just as they thought they had their shit figured it out, a tragedy hits them like a hurricane where they have to fight for their lives - literally. People they thought loved them, people they thought wanted the very best for them turned out to be slithering snakes waiting for that perfect chance to strike and ruin it all. Letago's belief and life as she knew it changed and it was up to her to either sink or swim, kill or be killed. The ball was in her court - would she roll over and play dead or hell will freeze over before she lets anything or anyone mess with her peace and happiness? 💛 Mrs Mogale is told from the first person narration with alternating points of view and a third person narration where necessary to give an overall view of certain things.