VOWS & VENDETTAS

In the opulent world of Northern Nigeria's elite, secrets are currency-and silence, survival.

**Inara Maki** has learned to keep both. Diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder, she's perfected the art of detachment, ruling her fashion empire with cool precision and elegant indifference. But when her estranged father summons her home with a single ultimatum-marry his best friend's son or lose everything she's built-Inara finds herself shackled to the one man she's vowed never to face again.

**Zayd Umar Diallo** is half Moroccan, half Fulani, and wholly composed-except when it comes to her. A tech mogul known for his emotional intelligence and quiet power, Zayd is unshakable... until his forced reunion with the woman who once disappeared without explanation. She's colder now. Sharper. And far more guarded. But beneath her elegant distance lies a storm neither of them is ready for.

As vows are exchanged under flashing cameras and bitter smiles, the vendettas buried in family legacies begin to rise. Whispers turn into threats, past wounds reopen, and love-if it ever existed between them-becomes just another weapon.

But when scars are shared and truths begin to unravel, can two enemies trapped in an alliance of power and pain learn that healing sometimes wears the face of the person you least expect?

**He was raised to build empires.
She was born to burn them down.
Now, they'll have to survive each other.**