The Sixth Columnist
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Being a Journalist has it perks. It's perks that Olanma has enjoyed for the greater part of her career. Coupled with being the daughter of an amicable politician and a lecturer, her life was amazing.
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Till cracks began to form in her perfect world.
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When her fiance slips into a coma a week to their wedding, Olanma in thrown into a state of grief and hopefulness. But soon a month gush by and she is forced to get back on track on with her life as she waits her fiance awaking.
But the first day of resumption at her place of work has a lot in store for her, but out of all what she hadn't expect was to meet a tall tattooed man in her fiance ward claimed to be is an acquaintance.
Things happens so fast and before she could process it, the popular journalist is thrown into an underground world of corruption, secrecy, white lies, politics, deception and anti-government organizations. Placed with minimum choices, she is left to choose between the lives of persons she loves the most or herself.
There was only one option
Her simple or more like, lavish life was turned upside down with a choice of her own and now into a game of survival. Olanma life changed, and she is forced to adapt to fit into this new world.
Being a journalist has always been her dream, finding the truth deep within every fraction. But things change when she becomes the secrets that needs hidding.
How contradictory.
The curiousity of man can be the rise of a kingdom or the very doom of nations.
An Intriguing, entangling and engaging story from a lady's point of view.
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