[BOOK ONE] [Completed] [Voted #1 Best Action Story in the 2019 Fiction Awards] Liam Luciano is one of the most feared men in all the world. At the young age of 18, he inherited the family name. 10 years later, the Luciano name is well known for its roll in the Mafia; along with two other families: The Costello's and The Corinelli's. But when a 21 year old is put on all three of the families radar, Luciano steps in the way, doing something he had never done before. Protect her. Through their own series of trials and tribulations, they learn how to love and how to trust. But most importantly, they learn that blood does not define family. - © 2015 taintedkissesxo * cover by thelucianoseries on instagram *

At St. Patrick's College, Abuja, everyone has a secret and some of them are to die for... She never wanted to transfer to St. Patrick's College, but her parents had a different agenda. After getting expelled for sticking her nose where it didn't belong, Adaeze is forced to move into a boarding school for the rich and influential, two things she was not. Her first day there would have been fine if a body wasn't found in the girl's bathroom of Veritas Hall. The cause of death was ruled as a suicide, an opioid overdose, but Adaeze can't shake the feeling there was more to the girl's death. As she retraces the steps of the victim Ogechi Nwafor, Adaeze stumbles upon a notebook filled with the secrets of her fellow students, her only clue to solving the Nwafor case. Someone wanted Ogechi dead and now it's up to Adaeze to figure out who...

I thought I hated my boarding school, it was a prison that almost made me go mad and I could not wait to leave.... But when I left I realized that it had given me many memories to think back to. These are experiences while I was in the boarding school.

"Men will stain your white infact wear red, black or blue men will still find a way to stain it" I would have told 16 years old Anita that she should never get in trouble because of a gender with no dignity. Stamp their necks if you have to get to the height you want to get to I'm Still Anita, but guess what? I'm not the Anita they used to know. What happens to Anita after she becomes the witness of a drastic murder case, how would she face the world or hide from it especially when there's someone after her life. Follow this young Nigerian girl take over the world while being a side character, from her love life to her every breath. Who can she trust?

Young maidens are being raped and murdered in Amaife. The killer always leaves behind a souvenir: A torn piece of 'okrika' clothe. The once peaceful community is thrown into chaos; the masses are provoked, the elders are clueless, families are scared and the gods of the land seem powerless to stop the murders. A young team arrives from the city for a week long crusade and the young evangelists meet the village in a state of emergency. The leader, a young pastor named Osi meets Amara, a beautiful, intelligent girl and they develop feelings for each other as they try to solve the crime(s) The killer is a member of the community; very intelligent, cunning and dangerous but who? Who could be behind such gruesome acts? Surely not a man but a devil. And beautiful Amara is his next target.....

Alacrimia in Layman's terms is the congenital inability to produce tears. Some places in Africa have their norms and beliefs wrapped around age-old, blind superstitions. Especially the rural communities. So when a young girl comes from the city to the village, and it is discovered, through a series of unfortunate events, that she won't cry, even when induced, things take a downward spin for her, as she finds herself from Osun State to Kogi State, and then Enugu State. © This book is a work of fiction. •°•°•° 🏆 Honorable Mention in The Ruby Awards 2019 (4th place) #WattNigeria #WattysNG2020 Updates on Weekends.

A collection of interconnected short stories I wrote for my dissertation in culmination of my Creative Writing postgraduate degree. Naomi - How far do you get to dream when you have no father and you mother sells her sex for a living? Officer Solomon - When you re-invent yourself, the least the world can do is follow suit, right? Nurse Ruth - If I can't have it, neither can they. That's just how life is. And others...

"I don't like seeing Samuel around you, Binye." He said, his tone reeked of possession and the anger he felt was fueled by her indifference to the situation. His eyes held a pleading look within them and Binye felt forced to look away quickly, the look in his eyes evoked an emotion that she couldn't seem to understand. "We were just talking Jay. Relax." She said trying to diffuse the situation by offering him the first cookie out of the package she had just opened. "I'd only calm down if you fed that to me." He responded with a lazy smirk, his hair wet from sweat and stuck to his forehead, eyes glittering from underneath them. She could literally feel his breath on her face, he smelt of Axe and perspiration. Slowly, she stretched out her arm to place the cookie in his mouth, her heart skipped a bit the moment she felt his tongue on the tip of her finger as they maintained eye contact while he grabbed the cookie with his teeth. "Nawa oh, the sexual tension here is choking guys!" A voice said and they both snapped out of their intimate moment.

Amarachi prides herself on having a well-structured life but after she's thrown together with the fascinating new boy at school she'll find her carefully set out life turned on its head. **** Amarachi Okon is notorious for planning things. From her daily schedule to her entire life, she has it all planned out and is determined to follow everything to the letter. Now that she is in her penultimate year of secondary school, she wants nothing more than to graduate in peace. But fate has other plans for her. And those plans are in the form of Daniel Wells. When non-conformist Daniel Wells starts at her school Amarachi finds herself uncannily attracted to him. Through this peculiar, mysterious boy she is about to learn that sometimes the best plan is to have no plan. But how long can chaos last before everything is destroyed? THE LAST DAYS AT FORCADOS HIGH SCHOOL meets THE WEDDING PARTY in this Nigerian-themed duology about first love and second chances. | Featured in the AmbassadorNG reading list 'Every-Every'! | | Featured in the StoriesUndiscovered reading list 'Stranger Than Fiction' for the whole of October 2021! | | The Ambys 2023 Top Pick in Teen Fiction! | | Quramo Writer's Prize 2024 Shortlister! |

Meet Thompson Adebowale Ireoluwa, a high school senior of Paramount High whose definition of a regular day for him was being tossed around by bullies, being at the bottom of the social foodchain. That took a slight twist when Caroline Efe began Paramount High and became the new object of ridicule. Tom should breath a sigh of relief at the turnout of events. But did he? With his family on the run, a friend fighting for her life and an academic status to maintain, read as Thompson experiences them all, making some mistakes on the way. ~Highest rankings~ #3 in Senior year 23/12/2020 #110 in Adolescence 22/12/2020