After Li Meixing is executed by her lover alongside her family, she wakes up four years earlier and searches for a way to survive the coming conflict. ***** Li Meixing is living the perfect life. Her father is a powerful politician in the Qi Kingdom, and she is engaged to the charismatic new Emperor, Huang Siming. But at the Emperor's coronation, Li and her family are framed as traitors by and ruthlessly executed. When Meixing wakes up, she finds that she has returned to the day when she first met Huang Siming. Now no longer naive and knowing what is to come, Meixing must dive into the world of politics that she has always avoided in order to save her family from their terrible fate. If she fails, she won't have a third chance.

[WINNER OF A WATTY AWARD 2019 IN THE LITERARY FICTION CATEGORY!!!!] "We always want to know what the dead would tell us if they could tell us anything at all. We invent ghosts. Ouija boards. We make mediums and psychics stinking rich, getting them to talk to those who aren't around anymore. I could just play that game. I could play the messenger of Death. Even if just for a while; I could make something out of the miracle that I am." Cover art credit: Janice Sung

At some point, you must have heard of the saying tit for tat, or an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth. After what happened to her sister, Amani Suleiman, a 25 year old resident doctor, is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that those responsible are brought to justice.The price she has to pay is huge, but the thought that those people are out there living their lives in happiness while she may never be able to sleep again, makes the cost of her retribution seem doable. Even if it means losing her happiness forever. But along the thin lines of being completely blinded by seeking revenge and hatred, she begins to see a new way of dealing with life's journey, she begins to slowly fall in love. Will this love survive? Or will it fade away we quickly as it has formed because with love comes trust, and trust is one luxury she cannot afford. They say vengeance taken will tear the heart and torment the conscience. Amani seems to think it is the only solution to all her problems A Hausa love story, but not your usual Hausa love story.