When Nadia Muhammad Shinkafi's fiance of nine months leaves her because he is certain she's infertile. Instead of moping around, she dusts herself up and signs herself up to be transferred far away from home. Her only focus; become a surgrical charge nurse. Abdullah Bindawa is your average sugar daddy except he doesn't have any sugar to give nor is he ready to be anyone's 'Daddy'. He has lived seven years without a spouse and is ready to live even more, until his world collides with Nadia's. In a society that has decided for itself that age gap relationships have everything to do with money and nothing to do with love, what is their love in the face of the distractions around them?

Storie Sovany is used to being dismissed as the fat friend, until she moves from New York City to rural Ohio for college and the charming frat boy Liam Alexander approaches her. Torn between disbelief and flattery, Storie hopes her luck may have finally changed - but is it too good to be true? [author's note: this is not a romance!]

D'Anthony Carlos has skated through life always being protected. When you're related to the biggest drug cartel in the DMV you gotta be protected. When all of your uncles are the most feared and respected you automatically garner the same attention. With his head held high he maneuvered through life not giving a damn. Not about the stares, whispers and rumors that surrounded his last name. People think they know him, but they have no idea. More detailed description in story...

A woman is taught to be invisible, not to raise her head too high lest she hits her husband's jaw. Dusk descends and Kamsi's orientation is changed. The thought and hope of giving life to a new being could change anyone. Kamsi, a woman in love, realizes that even love is not enough; The institution of marriage needs a lot more. Her story is just one voice amongst other women who are married to loving, overprotective and dominating men. It had been easy to believe one could get a blanket when cold hit but what about a time when the heart turns cold? How warm could love be at dusk? (Nigerian Story)

Great Job? Check. Husband? Check. Children? Hell no. *** Uyiosa has accomplished all the goals he wants except for one. To become a father. He waits patiently for his wife to agree to have children but she refuses. To make matters worse, he has to take sides between the two women he adores most in the world; His mother, who singlehandedly raised him or his beloved wife. There is only so much he can do before he is torn part by their enmity. *** Kemi is living the life she had always wanted. She has a great job, a loving successful husband and a house that is the second best thing to what she wants. She is set to make the best from her career. The last thing she needs is a child. But her mother-in-law and husband want her to get pregnant. It doesn't help that this is her mother-in-law's anthem and her husband is obedient to his mother's every wish. UPDATES ON WEDNESDAY

As if being kidnapped from a poverty-stricken town in the Middle East was not horrifying enough, Hayat Ishfaq, a 21 year-old American Muslim, is forced to watch the slow beheadings of her own students. But, those are the least of her worries. ~A Wattpad Featured Story~

"A mawkish drama for unmawkish folks" Left unchecked, drug abuse has found a new sitting in our society. Youngsters worship celebrities that advocate immorality. Banking on this new reality, Salim Suleiman a.ka Slim, an M.C par excellence embarks on a journey of becoming the Governor of Kaduna State. With his friends in the entertainment industry and social media influencers aiding his cause and seasoned politicians coming up against him, he is a man in a struggle to find the right balance between a campaign for political supremacy, finding a woman he can call "the one" and remaining committed to God and his moral conscience.

On a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago's snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body is discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong and drop the matter into their cold case files. Over a year later, Tracy's sister, Sondra, still can't come to grips with what happened. She throws herself into her work as a documentary filmmaker to try and forget the cruelty of her sister's death. However, a chance encounter with a man from Tracy's past rips the wound open and sends Sondra on a desperate search for answers about the secrets from her sister's life that may have led to her death. As Sondra struggles to uncover what happened to Tracy, she's launched into a tangled web of deceit and danger that put her on a collision course with life and death...

I was 15 when I first noticed the sadness, loneliness and longing in my Baba's eyes, perhaps it had been there all the while but he was so good at hiding it or perhaps, I was too young to understand.

**WATTYS 2018 SHORTLIST** (COMPLETED) The early 17th century England- a time when women were treated as mere commodities for their families and burdened with unreasonable expectations of beauty and mannerisms. In such a world, Lord Bradford raises his daughter, a girl of Indian descent named Saya, with all the love and care. He wishes only to see her settled with an eligible husband; one who would be able to see past the society's prejudice and love her for the kind woman that she is. Lord Zachary Hayworth, a courageous Knight and a man of high social standing, is displeased with the prospect of marriage with Lady Saya Bradford. She has nothing of what he had desired in a wife. Her swarthy complexion and plump body, is highly unbecoming of a Noble woman. The fact that she wasn't even a Noble by birth irked him to no end. But he is stuck with her by the decree of the King. When Saya finds herself married to the wonderful Lord Hayworth, she feels optimistic about the future ahead- a future that she intends to share with him. However, Lord Hayworth wastes no time in making his displeasure known. Her world is left asunder when the reality of her situation- as his undesirable wife, sinks in... *UNEDITED* [The sequel 'His Redemption, Her Legacy' has been completed]