Driven by the obsession for a wife as beautiful as his late wife ,biology proffesor Mahmud ,who kisses her exhumed head every morning, pulls off a morbid experiment of breeding beautiful women in a remote ,uncivilised,village.......
In the city of lagos ,Zayd Abubakar an ace investigative reporter who has the uncanny gift of writting delightful scoops and celebrates each with a drinking binge ,runs into Almas ,an escapee from Mahmud's village of beauty in a brothel.......
Zayd falls in love with Almas ,the shabbily dressed lady who turns out a different sort of a prostitute and in return for his kindness Almas hands him a mystery note :"in the throes of death,a snake bite,bearers origin, Survival of the beautiful ,an unknown culture,yet in the same country"
The note fires ZAYD journalistic curiosity and his decision to investigate it brings him in a head-long clash with professor Muhammad in the village of beauty and in lagos........
*They hated her at first... but they had no idea who she really was.*
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Serena Carter was just trying to live-trying to find peace in the mess that was her life. But one accident changed everything.
Abandoned. Alone. She was sent to live with the Morettis-four brothers and a father who wanted nothing to do with her. She was the reminder of their mother's biggest betrayal, the stain on their perfect legacy. Ten months. That's all she had to survive before she turned eighteen and walked away for good. Easy, right?
Wrong.
Because the Morettis might have convinced themselves they hated her, but hate was a tricky thing-it turned into obsession, into protectiveness, into something none of them were ready for. They thought they knew her, thought she was just a mistake that could be ignored.
They had no idea.
Because Serena had secrets-ones even she didn't fully understand. And in a world where power was everything, she was about to become the most dangerous piece on the board.
She wasn't just a mistake. She was a Moretti.
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