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Everyone has already decided what Tamunotonye Briggs and Chimdindu Okafor should become.
Toni was born into one of Rivers State's most influential political families. With a governor for a father and generations of politics behind her name, everyone assumes public office is her inheritance. Toni disagrees. Brilliant, fiercely independent and determined to build a life that belongs to her, she has spent years proving that being a Briggs does not mean becoming one more politician.
Chim understands inherited expectations better than most. A gifted doctor from one of Nigeria's most powerful medical families, he has built a successful life in London, far enough from the hospital empire his father expects him to inherit. With a career, a woman he loves and a future already planned, Chim believes he knows exactly where his life is going.
Then he meets Toni.
What begins with irritation becomes an unexpected connection neither of them is prepared for. From London to Abuja and Port Harcourt, their lives become increasingly tangled in family expectations, political ambition, medicine, friendship, grief and choices that threaten the futures they thought they wanted.
Because sometimes inheritance isn't money, property or a family name.
Sometimes it's expectation.
And the hardest thing two people can do is decide which parts of the lives they inherited are worth keeping-and which parts they must choose for themselves.
What We Chose is a contemporary Nigerian romance about love, legacy, ambition, grief, friendship, powerful families and the courage to build a life of your own.