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Familiar Foe √

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Reads 2,234
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Parts 22
Time 2h 48m

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Mrs Idara Coker: Your typical middle-aged, wealthy widowed mother is found one morning on her bed, stabbed to death, leaving behind four beautiful daughters, a flourishing business and a question too difficult to answer. 

Detective Mary Chukwukaima Wilson: Nationally acclaimed homicide detective. A cop with the charm, a charm she uses to her advantage when dealing with criminals. Her business is her pleasure and she has cracked some of the most horrifying cases. Crime scenes are her second home and very little has challenged her until now. 
Now she is faced with a case that is almost as entangled as it is messed up.All Rights Reserved

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Deadly as trust by Emmie_Anuku

Formerly known as "It all comes down to trust". After being abandoned at a young age, Miriam was given into forced prostitution. Her story begins where she finds herself caught up in a murder case and involved with an assassin. She has to defend herself from someone who threatens her life. Jide is a detective. He works so hard at work, sometimes too hard. After a murder case was abruptly dropped at his feet, it doesn't make his job any easier especially since his life is also at risk. When circumstances bring them together, they realize they have to work together somehow to take down the killer before he takes them down, little do they know that it is easier said than done. Miriam discovers Jide's secretiveness and recognizes it as lack of trust in her. Frustrated, she begins to distrust him, widening the gap between them. But the killer won't give up and in time they learn, the hard way, just how important, though deadly, trust is.

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The Porn Identity by DeliriousMoon

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Deadly as trust cover

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The Porn Identity cover

The Devil Wears Okrika cover

The Phantom Ritual (DCI Morgan Chester: Case One) cover

The Return cover

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Deadly as trust

Formerly known as "It all comes down to trust". After being abandoned at a young age, Miriam was given into forced prostitution. Her story begins where she finds herself caught up in a murder case and involved with an assassin. She has to defend herself from someone who threatens her life. Jide is a detective. He works so hard at work, sometimes too hard. After a murder case was abruptly dropped at his feet, it doesn't make his job any easier especially since his life is also at risk. When circumstances bring them together, they realize they have to work together somehow to take down the killer before he takes them down, little do they know that it is easier said than done. Miriam discovers Jide's secretiveness and recognizes it as lack of trust in her. Frustrated, she begins to distrust him, widening the gap between them. But the killer won't give up and in time they learn, the hard way, just how important, though deadly, trust is.