what the delta knows

Toritseju Cole-Efeturi left Warri with a scholarship, a secret, and a promise to herself that she would never be that girl again. The girl on the bathroom floor. The girl who almost didn't get up.

America was supposed to be a clean start.

She did not account for Damien Voss-Adeyemi.

He is thirty five, brilliant, and carries his own silences like a man who has made peace with them. Half Nigerian, non-practicing Muslim, and absolutely certain about one thing - he does not do Nigerian women. He has his reasons. He has never had to explain them.

Until her.

Toritseju is not trying to change his mind. She is not trying to do anything except survive law school, make enough money to put her mother in a house with a kitchen that faces a garden, and outrun a past that has just sent her a text message from across an ocean.

But the past is patient.

And so is Damien.

What the Delta Knows is a story about two people who are very good at protecting themselves, the friendship that opens the door between them, and the quiet terrifying moment when running stops feeling like an option.
Genre: Romance / New Adult

Tags: Nigerian romance, cultural identity, slow burn, secrets, Muslim x Christian, billionaire romance, campus romance, Warri girl, diaspora