COMPLETED English/Hausa For someone who has never had it easy in life, Labiba believed her world has finally come to an end when she was practically forced into marrying her dead sister's husband. But if there's one thing that'll make her tolerate Salim Magatakarda, it's Laila, his one year old daughter who just happens to be her niece and the love of her life.

Aaliyah Musa's house along with her life was set on fire the moment the rebels gained entrance into her home and murdered her father. After being forced into marriage, she has to make a decision for her freedom, either through life or death.

A romantic love story

~~~~~~ When two ends meet, does that mark it the end? Or the beginning of another roller coaster? ~~~~~~ There's a hausa saying "kowa ya bar gida, gida ya barshi." In the case of two sisters, could that proverb be the best description to their situation? • • Zubaida Musa, a teenage girl, whose tender teenage hood was snatched away from her by the cruelties of this world is yet again faced by many other challenges, and leaving her home was the biggest of them. And her sister Ruqayyah, who was a survivor of a toxic marital relationship. Could surviving it alone mark the end of the bitter memories? Or they haunt her from time to time. © Halimatu Abdulrazak