In the face of climate collapse, life has been trudging on as usual. The rich have gotten richer, countries have fortified their borders, and elections have remained a game of deception.
London, a passionate journalist, has clung to the belief that the system can be changed from within. Focused on the promise of a better future, she has been clawing her way to the top. Her hidden parasocial relationship with a politician only adds more teeth to her bite.
Emir, used to dealing with the bloody gears of politics, has clung to the belief that change comes unbidden. Loved by one, hated by another; his rise to power has been unconventional, and it has only just begun.
Driven by their desire to fix the world around them, they finally cross paths. That fateful day changes their lives, and may even change the fate of the nation.
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CONTENT WARNING: Offensive language, heavy themes of discrimination, descriptions and mentions of abuse and state-violence.
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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