Born Wrong: Amani Danbatta.
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"I wasn't just born unwanted. I was born wrong." Pulled from her third year of medical school and dropped into the home of Nigeria's most powerful family, Amani Danbatta becomes the unwilling bride in a marriage designed to fix a scandal.
But Amani isn't ordinary. She's a product of a sin so deep, her existence alone haunts everyone who remembers.
Now forced to marry a man who hides secrets darker than his eyes, Amani must survive in a house where loyalty is a mask, and love might be the deadliest lie of all.
Because in this world, blood is never just blood-and some truths were meant to stay buried.
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