'Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.' - Maya Angelou Izigora is an orphan who has always wanted to belong to a family. She marries the top benefactor of the orphanage but everything isn't always what it looks like from the outside. Excerpt How could she have married this mad man? Dry sobs raked her body as he poured more salt on her wounds and began to massage the salt into the wound with the efficiency of a masseuse in a spa. Izigora went into her most private place where she was alone and shut out the world around her. Tears were for the weak. She wasn't going to let him break her. She shut out everything, no longer aware of what he was doing to her. 'I could just end your life right now,' he said, sounding like he was far away. 'But I want you to live with the knowledge that you're only alive because I chose to spare you. Every breath you take is only possible because I let you have it.' He let go of her neck and rose to his feet.

↪Winner Of Ankara Community Awards. ➳ sporadic updates | ➵ ➳ ➸ | ❝pray tell, young lass, what do you know about hell?❞ | ➵ ➳ ➸ | For Aala AbdulMalik, her home is hell personified. In a house where words were left unsaid, promises broken, and hearts bitter from ages of disappointment, being her father's 'mistake' was her biggest regret. It didn't help that her family members blamed her for jinxing their happiness, and so, hated her. Thus, she was hidden in plain sight from the world that itched to know everything about the illusive AbdulMalik family, for no one airs their dirty laundry in public. When her stepmother finally decides to get rid of her by marrying her off to the highest bidder-The Son of the President of Nigeria, everything changes. Because when you've spent your whole light in the shadows, being in the spotlight was nothing but torture. | ➵ ➳ ➸ | © Copyright. All Rights Reserved. -ater- 2019.

|| A NIGERIAN ROMANCE STORY|| 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘱 ♛♛♛♛ All Doris wanted was a to become a famous actress, never did she expect that her life will be filled with actual drama. Everything turned upside down when her twin sister, Dorine pleaded with her to take her place as the bride on her wedding day to Matthew. Of course, Matthew got married to his woman but ended up taking the wrong woman to his house then his bed. The rest, they say, is history. ©All Rights Reserved. Please do not duplicate this book without permission of the author. ® Amyirechi 2020

"I know we dreamt of these things, but now it seems like your standards are too high." Adira Archibong wants to be a supermodel, but as she steps into a world of money, fame, and detrayal, she learns that the only people she can trust are her friends. ***** Adira Archibong is starting out in the Nigerian modelling industry, but quickly loses her agent when she refuses to go nude for a shoot. Then she's approached by Benjamin, a modeling executive, who brings her into his agency, but also wants to date her. Soon she and Benjamin are a couple, but as time goes on she learns more about him and the secrets he keeps. There are lies surrounding all men in Adira's life. As a model, the only people she can trust are her friends. But will they be enough to save her? (Content and/or Trigger Warning: Sexual assault)

Victor -- The Vic, a global superstar seems to have everything. But he has a dark past that leaves him drained. Broken and drained. Even as he is topping charts, his past is slowly catching up to him. The only normalcy in his chaotic life is the girl he can't seem to keep out of his head. Can he hold out just long enough before his darkness takes over? Cass's world is Theoretical Physics and poetry. What happens when she can't get enough of the famous badboy she just met? What happens when she is thrust into the public eye? Victor and Cass are as different as ice and fire, but what happens when they can't stay away from each other? Will their differences make or break them? This can only end badly. They both know it. [Winner of The Best Badboy Character in The Yearly Garden Awards 2018] [2nd Place in Romance - Ankara Awards] Highest Ranking: 581/36.4k in Young Adult Started[May 3, 2018.] Finished[February 23, 2019.]

Highest Rank #61 Mum was struggling to breathe, her legs kicking hard as they shuffled on the floor. I pulled on dad's hands which gripped mum's neck but he was quick to nudge me with his shoulder, forcing me to stagger, hitting my head on the wall. Tiny white stars danced before my eyes as quick darkness closes in on me. Mum was gasping. Dad hasn't let go. I staggered up, my eyes clearing off a little as I rushed to dad. Glancing at mum, her pupils were dilating, the white part of her eyeballs slowly taking over completely. Dad's eyes were bloodshot with no emotions whatsoever registered in them. Mum's kicks were slowing down with her hand slowly losing grip. I screamed and bite into dad's hands, chewing as though I was hungry for meat. The metallic taste of blood trickled into my mouth but I didn't let go as I bit harder. All his efforts to push me away were in vain as I kept my gaze on mum, every slow kick she gave urging me to bite in more. Then dad let go. And mum's body slumped. Sprawling on the floor like a bunch of weak leaves. I let go off dad's hand and rushed to her. No pulse. No heartbeat. ****** This emotional fiction gives it's readers an opportunity to peek into the life of a pained woman and her struggles to survive when abandoned by a man she's ever loved. ****** African society has given men so much control over women. No matter what a woman accomplishes in life, once she's not under a man, she's seen as utter useless.... Religion, society and family have subconsciously compelled African women into accepting everything including domestic violence as long as the 'Mrs' title is retained. Many women have lost their lives through physical and emotional abuse. They stay put in abusive relationships cos most are afraid to bear the tag "divorcee", so they rather die than leave. Most African men are proud cheats, with the excuse that "men are polygamous in nature". Sadly, women are the most supporters of this false ideology.

She wants tall, dark and handsome But not all TDHs are ideal husband and it takes a bitter lesson for Bukky to realize that.

"You're alive for a reason. Everything you've passed through will shape you into the ultimate masterpiece because even golds are forged in fire to become jewels." I whispered softly. "And I dare you, Abel Ugochukwu Ejiofor. I dare you to persevere." Lucky Adekunle is a timorous seventeen year old with a mountain of insecurities and unending questions about her family. Even though her name has the word 'Luck' in it, It's the one thing she's never had. All her life she's dealt with an abusive father who wants nothing more than to mold her into the 'perfect child'. But the abuses suddenly become tolerable when she meets a certain boy diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. This is a story of two young adults from turbulent homes and their struggle to make it out alive.

Completed! This isn't the first time love had a roommate. It's been five years since the death of her parents and 19-year-old Lillian Camel still mourns their loss while battling with mental illness. Cooped up in her aunt's house, she embarks on a one-girl mission to survive university and get her bachelor's degree as a fashion designer. But she is not going alone. She will need the willpower to face the demons that are coming along with her. But a breakdown in the dormitory system sets Lillian off to a decade-old abandoned dorm to room with the mysterious Noah Sky. Friendly, observant, and extremely attractive, he shares an unlikely trait of secrets with Lillian - secrets that haunt his past. However, they're not the only ones. The dorm has a few of its own. [[Word count: 90,000 - 95,000]] Content/trigger warning: Contains semi-mature themes, language and sexual content ©All Rights Reserved

When Maduka meets Nwanyieze, he is certain they are meant to be. He knows she is a woman with secrets, but he cannot stay away from her. He also has secrets of his own, of a past that he has been fearing and seeking to confront at the same time... Nwanyieze, distrustful of the world, can't help herself with Maduka. He seems too good to be true, but what will happen when the cat crawls out of the bag? Burning from rejection, Saheed has refused to back down from his goal. He is a man who always gets what he wants. And he wants Nwanyieze. Amid secrets and desire set in the Centre of Excellence, will love blossom, or will it die off? And is it lying when you deliberately omit something from someone you love? _______________________________________________ Highest ranking: No. 1 in #Africa Warning: Might make you grin from ear to ear and go "Awww" like a million times. Available on Okadabooks website and application if you'd like to own a revised copy. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.