"I'll always choose vengeance. I'll rather heal in hell."
An assassin based in Russia solely kills rapists who have managed to escape the wrath of the law as a trauma response to her personal, gruesome experience. Raped by six men at the tender age of twelve, with a masked guy being the leader of the rapists, her resolve ever since has been to find him because he dared her to catch him if she could. So, she goes on a killing spree with hopes to find the guy beneath the mask.
But Ebunoluwa has a beautiful, supportive family who is ready to fight in her stead. They do not want their last-born child to endanger herself, seeing that she tends to succumb to drastic acts, with a vengeance being the motive.
Sadly, we can't make choices for people. As Ebun chooses the path of vengeance, would it pay her in the long run, or would it have her wishing to have wrapped herself in the love her family had to offer?
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Ojuolape, the author of the prestigious series, Our Side of The Dice, takes her readers on a raw journey through her present life since she had significant, corrective surgery of Blount's disease in 2013, and every paragraph is every shade of authentic, vulnerable and honest; Battles with her insecurities, self-denial, and self-worth especially for the fact that she didn't realize she was fighting these battles for the longest time until it was revealed to her that the future of having perfectly straight legs depended on her mindset.
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2ND PLACE IN THE BORDERVERSE AWARDS FOR ACTION/ADVENTURE STORIES
6TH PLACE IN THE LEAL AWARDS FOR ACTION/ADVENTURE STORIES WITH A SCORE OF 87.5/100
Maryam never had a say. Although her situation wasn't her fault, people never fail to rub it in her face.
If she was a child out of wedlock, she wouldn't have been sad. Atleast she'd be paying for her parent's sin.
If she was an Almajira, she'd still lift her head up high and accept what ever the world threw at her, atleast she would still be paying for her parent's sin for throwing her out into the streets.
If she was a prostitute, Heck! she'd stand proud and tall, atleast it was her decision to sell her body to men.
But, she was neither one of this things. She had lost her father, a day before she was born. Her mother got married to someone else a week later!
That marriage came with a whole lot of burden. A burden she was subjected to by her gullible mother.
A burden she had no choice but to embrace.