She’s a lady with a dark past. He’s a notorious womanizer. 

Milly needs a distraction from the dark cloud hanging over her head. Her solution to this is marriage but with no intention of falling for her future husband. The charming, sexy, and good looking Uche is certainly not the guy she’s searching for. One look into those adorable eyes of his and she’ll fall helplessly in love with him, jeopardizing her plans. Nevertheless, Uche isn’t the only person she needs to be worried about. Can she handle him and the threat that’s about to expose her past to the world?

Heat seeking bachelor and sexy bad boy, Uche, isn’t ready to settle down with one woman yet. He meets Milly and he’s only interested in a fling with her. However, he’s stunned she’s not like most women he’s been with. The more she’s resisting, the more curious and intrigued he’s becoming. What’s it about her that’s making him go against every rule in his book? 


Haunted Past

She desperately needs a roommate.
-	He desperately needs a room to rent.

Omoh is hustling to make ends meet and taking Folu in as her roommate will definitely bail her out of her rent issue. She hates him but she’s attracted to him. Inclined to wet her sexual appetite, they become an item. Folu is being inquisitive about her job and she’s becoming irritated. She would prefer he remains in the dark about what she does in this nightclub. Omoh knows she’s risking her relationship with Folu and also risking her life working for a philandering boss like Dimeji in this club. Will everything blow up in her face?

For Folu, she’s not the sort of girl he would usually go for and not the type to take home to meet his mother. However, living together as roommates is putting ideas in his head, creating an irresistible attraction. He suspects she could be hiding things from him. Deep inside, he knows getting involved with Omoh is dangerous but for her love is he prepared to take the risk?


Roomies

After going through a bitter divorce from her husband, Dr. Chuka Obunike, Debisi has learnt to live without him and has spent the last decade rebuilding her life. She’s presently in a new relationship and everything is perfect until their son is arrested. Debisi and Chuka must work together to ensure that their son doesn’t go to prison. 

Working closely with Chuka is igniting those old flames and an affair is imminent. Debisi commits to this affair for a reason, becoming the other woman. She never anticipates a proposal from Chuka begging her to remarry him. Why does Chuka want her back? How is she going to deal with Chuka’s psychopathic wife, Ofunne, who is still very much in the picture? 

To tackle this unsettling issue, Debisi delves into her past, recalling every incident that happened in her marriage leading up to the divorce.  Does Chuka deserve a second chance or is Debisi set for another dangerous move?


Dangerous Move

Bolade’s bad relationship with her family is intensifying and she can’t wait to leave home. Meeting someone isn’t her intention when she arrives in camp for her NYSC, but one glance at AJ and she’s hypnotized by him. They become inseparable in camp; their love is sweet and infectious. A day before they are to be dismissed from camp, AJ disappears into thin air. Bolade is distraught. Did something happen to him?
Still suffering from a heartbreak, she learns that her family is planning a secret wedding between her sister, Bolaji, and the person she believes is lost forever – AJ.  There’s a war between light and darkness threatening to break out, Bolade understands that if Bolaji and AJ are joined in matrimony, her life would be in grave danger. How is she going to stop the wedding?
AJ’s been frantically searching for an heiress to marry in order to break the curse that’s lingered in his family for generations. He meets Bolade in camp and she’s just perfect. He realizes his search isn’t over when he discovers something about her. The situation in his family is worsening; AJ needs to marry an heiress ASAP. Then Bolaji mysteriously enters his life and he’s getting set to marry her. When he meets Bolade again, he’s torn between saving his family or going after the woman he loves.


Silent Lies

Onyinye is secretly in love with Olisa, nursing the idea that she'll get hitched to her best friend someday. Then Maxwell Ekeh enters her life with a delectable proposal, one she can’t turn down. She ignores the yearnings in her heart and marries him and what she encounters is staggering and unexpected. Is she prepared to keep hidden the passionate emotions she has for Olisa and be stuck with this maniac forever?

Olisa has always regarded Onyinye as his best friend and doesn't realize he’s deeply in love with her until she drops a bombshell - she's getting married to a wealthy politician! Now she’s never going to learn about his strong desires for her, will she? After the wedding, there are indications that things aren't right with her. Thousands of miles away, he’s reminded of her everywhere he looks. Will he ever forget her?

Get into this chilling, romantic suspense story to find out.


Ensnarled

•        He was a lecturer in her university.
.        He was young, charming and she had a crush on him.
•        He was her first love.
•        He was the one who shattered her heart into a million pieces.
What happens when she faces him again 13 years later?    	

Vivian Iburesi-Thompson knows too well what pain and heartbreak is all about and has resolved never to let any relationship bring her down ever again. She’s at the top of her game now having worked extremely hard to become the Founder/CEO of a multi-million naira cosmetic company. She has also established herself as a formidable fashion and beauty icon. However, away from all the glitz and glamour is a past she would very much like to conceal.


Not So Perfectly Concealed

Kingsley Egwu and his wife are madly in love and expecting their first child. Then he makes a decision to follow his uncle to Lagos (for the first time) for a mouthwatering job leaving his pregnant wife behind. He has no clue what he’ll be up against.
He is drawn to his uncle’s charming and seductive wife, haunted daily by her sexy and alluring body. Can he overcome his adversities and go home, back to his wife and baby?
Njideka gives birth without her husband in the picture. Making one critical resolution, she leaves home in search of answers.
They’re thrown further apart…their love is put to the test. Will they ever be reunited?

My Uncle's Wife

What happens when a boy who detested, mocked and sneered at you all through high school because of your looks suddenly decides he wants to marry you?
 
Munachi knows she has never been anything but ugly and will remain single for the rest of her life because no man would ever want to marry a scarred-face girl like her. So when Okwy Akunanya, the handsome and arrogant devil, returns from America years later and chooses her to be his wife she is shocked. Why this sudden interest in her? Is there something behind Okwy’s proposal or is it actually real love?


Is He Mine?

Eloh Otuaro isn’t looking for love or a relationship; she’s only aspiring to become a future Olympic gold medalist. Not even a proposal from the rich and extravagant ladies’ man, Odafe Odiete, is going to make her change her mind. But Odafe won’t lie low, he’s determined to win her love by any means. A sudden betrayal by a close friend pushes Eloh into the arms of Ifeanyi Udeh, the cool and stylish one, and then everything changes. They begin a relationship and become inseparable.

Soon, she discovers things about Ifeanyi that she can’t stomach, forcing her to believe she’s made a huge mistake about him. Heartbroken, stranded, and in hot water, Eloh has nowhere to go. Her only option is to call Odafe.

Odafe loves her to death and had in the past, has promised he would do anything for her but would he be willing to accept another man’s baby?


Wake Up Call

A notorious gang is terrorizing the political elite, and now they plan to assassinate one of its ruling class’s top executives. Detective Dylis Asuquo has one mission, to infiltrate the hideout of this gang as an undercover agent, smoke out its leader, Dranch, and stop them from carrying out their threat. But her heart has other ideas when she comes face to face with him. They can’t deny the mutual attraction they have for each other and a budding romance ensues. Would she be able to fulfill her mission? How would Dranch react when he discovers her real identity?

Detective Dylis

Detective Dylis is back on another mission.

Dylis is torn and heartbroken when Yomi stops communicating with her. She makes a decision. Armed with just his name and a disconnected phone number and with no idea where he lives in London, Dylis hops on a plane to London on a mission to find Yomi and amend their sour relationship. However, things are not as easy as she thinks. London is not a city she’s familiar with and she isn’t prepared for what it has in store for her. She encounters setbacks that could possibly derail her. Would she be able to complete her mission?


Detective Dylis Goes to London

Austin Tella meets Kelechi Onwuka in an unlikely manner and falls hopelessly in love with her. He lets her slip away but it wasn’t intentional. Now his best friend Okey Anyankwo is married to the girl he thinks is his better half and he’s devastated. Austin can’t stand seeing them together and can’t stop obsessing over Kelechi either. He decides to marry Tonia as a way to get over her but will that complete him?

Kelechi Onwuka is married to Okey Anyankwo for the wrong reasons and hiding the truth that her heart belongs to his best friend from him. Nonetheless, she’s trying to build a normal marriage but can she keep her emotions in check? Then something happens that she didn’t expect and her life is about to be entwined in this topsy-turvy drama. How deep will she go to cover up her surreptitious act?

Caught in the Act

Happily married, Jumobi Adewura has everything she’s ever wanted in her marriage to her rich and successful husband Dotun or so she thought until her past resurfaced, bringing along with it juicy irresistible pleasures she had long forgotten. 
Now, her marriage is on the verge of breaking down and the only way to save it is to lay her hands on the ‘impossible to get’ secret recipe to win back her husband’s heart. Jumobi must go out of her way to get this recipe and save her marriage.
Will Dotun’s love for her revert back to what it once was or will that lustful appetite cause her to lose everything?

Betray and Betrayed

Trapped in an unhappy home, Ronke Adegoke is forced to agree to Folarin’s proposal of marriage.  She sees it as her only chance to escape her rich and abusive parents.  It turns out Folarin also has a violent uncontrolled temper.  Wedding date is set; she can’t back out now even if she wants to. She’ll have to live the rest of her life married to a billionaire abusive husband.
 
Brasin Kromor agrees to take a bizarre job and comes face to face with the beautiful, timid and vulnerable Ronke Adegoke. He wants her to be his and it looks like she feels the same way too. Can he save her from what is about to befall her? Why do her eyes seem to be hiding so many secrets?

Bizarre Entanglement

Living in a small town with a routine old job; dating random guys because she’s never been lucky in love and in long term relationships, Myra yearned for a change. She longed to land the perfect job and the perfect man in a perfect city. Impossible she knew but an opportunity arrived when she was called for a job interview in the city and she crossed path with this ridiculously handsome guy. She was hooked and had to have him. The scenes that followed were explosive. What she didn’t anticipate however, were the series of events which unfolded that almost cost her, her life.

Deceived by Your Charm!

The home she shares with her aunt and baby sister will go up for foreclosure very soon and if that happens, she and her family could end up on the streets.  Peyton terribly needs a summer job to help her old aunt out and to save up for college.  She encounters the elegant and endearing Shay Hillon and the Hillons invite her to spend the summer in their home.  Peyton sees this as a golden opportunity to ask for a job.
Then the arrogant and rude Tanner Hillon shows up and it isn’t her intention to fall for him, the problem is she’s a sucker for sexy and attractive guys. They soon discover they have this chemistry but their sizzling romance is under a lot of pressure.
What happens when Shay finds out about their relationship? Will Peyton end up being kicked out of the Hillon Mansion and have her dreams of going to college tarnished?

Blissful Summer

News of her father’s heart attack forces Fowoke and her husband to travel home one weekend, she didn’t envisage encountering her worst nightmare there.
Fowoke dreads Maria and has always been intimidated by her because Maria has the tendency to cause trouble for her and ruin her relationships.  Can she stand up to her now that her marriage is on the line?

Menace

Dike, one of the most loved and respected men in his village, suddenly finds himself a widower. When he decided to marry again few years after the mysterious death of his wife, his only child Uloma encouraged him.  They lived together as one happy family when Nwanna arrived until evil came calling again, this time for his beloved daughter.  Who is after his family?

The Unfortunate Assumption

Menduka is a strange girl. Sheathed by a dark secret, blessed with an astonishing beauty, she is stunning and captivating and attracts the attention of every young man she comes in contact with but she wants only one man, Udo. What is the myth surrounding her birth?
Udo is quiet with a gentle demeanor, he wants to please his friend, Emenalo but finds out Emenalo is a greedy snake who is after his money. Now he feels his life will be in grave danger if he marries Menduka.  For her love, he’s prepared to abandon the town he’s born in, why?
Emenalo is ruthless and arrogant, poor; yet he's determined to make it big in life and the only way to succeed is to get his hands on Menduka’s secret. What is the secret?
Ikenna is the son of a wealthy politician, who gets whatever he wants. Now he wants to marry Menduka.  He has vowed that no man but himself marry her. Will he succeed knowing that Udo is involved with her?
Set in the 80s, in a fast growing town, three guys; Udo, Emenalo and Ikenna are magically drawn against each other by a female force, Menduka. This is the uncanny story of love, passion, jealousy, mystery that would lead to murders. Who is the killer?

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Menduka

2019

Nky Omeka

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Books by Nky Omeka

Haunted Past

Roomies

Dangerous Move

Silent Lies

Ensnarled

Not So Perfectly Concealed

My Uncle's Wife

Is He Mine?

Wake Up Call

Detective Dylis

Detective Dylis Goes to London

Caught in the Act

Betray and Betrayed

Bizarre Entanglement

Deceived by Your Charm!

Blissful Summer

Menace

The Unfortunate Assumption

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