Oil & Venom.

When a sharp-witted IT student named Ifunanya Okeke crashes into Kenechukwu's orbit during a chaotic university-industry hackathon gone wrong - a late-night system failure that forces them to debug code side by side for hours - Kene is captivated not by her beauty, but by the razor-sharp elegance of her mind. Her questions cut through his awkward silences. Her persistence chips at his walls. For the first time, someone refuses to let him disappear.

But in a country like Nigeria where mental storms are whispered about but never confronted, and where even the privileged son of oil must perform unbreakable strength, Kene must face the venomous truth: some attachments are deeper than blood, sharper than code, and more destructive than any addiction.

What happens when the one person who made Kene feel alive becomes the addiction that could destroy him?

Oil and Venom is a raw, psychologically charged Nigerian tale of hidden pain, obsessive love, cultural expectations, and the fragile line between genius and self-destruction. For readers who couldn't put down Americanah or The Fishermen, this is a story that lingers - dark, intimate, and impossible to forget.