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Borrowed Lives
Ethan Kamau was never meant to be a headline.
A quiet, hardworking IT specialist living in the restless heart of Nairobi, he dreamed only of building a simple, honest life - one small victory at a time. But when his best friend, Daniel Muema, is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Ethan's world crumbles overnight. Framed for a murder he didn't commit, with evidence too perfectly stacked against him, he finds himself the most wanted man in the country.
On the run with nothing but a duffel bag and a fading belief in his own innocence, Ethan is forced into Nairobi's underworld - a chaotic maze of hackers, brokers, gangsters, and ghosts of the past. In this world, identities are bought and sold, lives are borrowed for a price, and truth is just another currency.
Desperate to clear his name, Ethan tracks down Jonah Kibicho, a legendary fugitive hacker whose reputation for disappearing without a trace makes him Ethan's only hope. Together, they dig deeper into the conspiracy, uncovering a powerful cartel of businessmen, politicians, and law enforcers who have mastered the art of puppeteering people's lives from the shadows.
But survival comes at a cost. Betrayals cut deeper when the stakes are freedom-or death. As Ethan fights to untangle the lies, he grapples with haunting questions:
Who can he trust when everyone has a price?
And more chillingly-was his life ever truly his own, or has he always been living on borrowed time?
Borrowed Lives is a gripping story of resilience, betrayal, and the desperate fight to reclaim your own fate in a world designed to erase you . Ethan's journey isn't just about proving his innocence ,it's about taking back the power to define who he is before the system burries him for good.