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Iya Beji

Erinkan has met her soul mate, the man who ticks every single box she has. Handsome, smart and wealthy, the mystery Kay is everything she has ever prayed for. But in a cruel twist of fate, she loses his contact information and as she didn't give him hers, he has disappeared from her life just as quickly as he came into it. Determined not to give up, a manhunt begins for the man of her dreams. Until she meets Emeka, a man nothing like what she thinks she wants, making her question everything she has ever thought about love...and who could be THE ONE!

The One!

Fola loves Jimi. Jimi loves Dolly...or Fola...or Dolly. The epic love triangle between the sisters and Jimi, that lasted two decades.

The Love Triangle

Isioma is left heartbroken when an encounter with the debonair Karibi Graham-Hart turns out to be a one-night stand. She spends the next couple of years trying to get over him, until life throws them back together again. But as they revive their relationship, it becomes clear that he is unwilling to let go of his past love or even fully commit to her. As she struggles with other major life issues, they both have to decide whether love is truly enough.

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Adanna

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The story of Golibe...a young woman who embarks on a mission to find her birth parents...but instead finds herself on a journey of love and self discovery.

Golibe

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Faith's Pregnancy Diary

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Ginika's Bridesmaids: Ginika

Molly and Marshall are the picture-perfect couple. Happily married for 21 years and upstanding members of their Church and society as a whole, life couldn't be better. Until when 2 teenage girls appear at their doorstep, products of Marshall's affair with another woman. Can their marriage, and their family as a whole, survive the betrayal and devastation that follows?

You, Me... Them!

Based on the ‘Confessions of Fat Girl’ series. The lighthearted memoirs of Ihunna, as she and her sisters navigate life through daddy issues, weight issues, money issues…and man issues. From side chicks, to love triangles, to baby mamas, to marriages of convenience, Ihunna seems to be in the middle of it all…whilst also dealing with life issues of her own.

The Sisters

Jaiye is engaged to her high-school sweetheart, Yomi; a chubby, sweet-natured guy whom everyone loves. Even though she loves him, she finds herself agitated about being engaged at the age of 24. She suffers a severe meltdown as the wedding planning progresses, and finally ends the engagement, breaking Yomi's heart. She is finally as free as a bird and able to do all she really wants to do; return to school, travel the world and build a career. She is loving the single life. Until she turns 30…and suddenly, the single life doesn’t seem quite so appealing. After a chance encounter with a revamped Yomi, she begins to wonder if, maybe, she made the mistake of her life letting him go.  Will she win back the love of her life? Or will she find love elsewhere?

Jaiye Jaiye

Convinced that distance is the reason her long-term relationship is failing, Legachi sets off to London on the Skyline scholarship, to reunite with her beloved Mezie. But things do not turn out the way she expects and not only does her relationship continue to go downhill when she gets there, she finds herself penniless and without reasonable accommodation. She is forced to juggle several jobs while at the same time doing everything she can to fix things with her man. But when she is hired by the handsome Doctor Roman, a single father desperate for decent childcare, it throws into question everything she thinks she feels for Mezie and everything she wants for her future. But alas, things are really never as they seem.

Call Me Legachi

She is on the rebound.

After her short-lived reunion with her high school love implodes, Bioye is left devastated and doubts everything she thought was certain.


He has sworn off love.

Childhood trauma and a bad break up have made Abolore swear off love. A confirmed bachelor, his career has become his passion.

But all that changes that fateful summer.

Seeking solace after her broken engagement and desperate to get away from reminders of everything she has lost, Bioye volunteers at the Malomo High summer camp that her former teacher, Abolore, has organised. Neither of them sees the explosive romance coming. As their love affair blooms, a volcano of secrets and lies erupts, and former flames, political aspirations, and hidden insecurities threaten to unravel everything.

A Complicated Kind of Love

Years after a reluctant separation, Fiyin has learned to fill the void with the luxuries her estranged husband pays for. She is living her best life and everything is grand. Until it isn't. Suddenly, she is desirous of rebuilding her marriage and fixing what is broken with Dare, her husband...even if he has gone on to marry several other wives and has given stringent conditions for a reconciliation to be possible. Regardless, she is ready to do whatever it takes to reclaim her place as his number one wife. As she jets to and from Abuja trying to win Dare back, she accepts the offer from an admirer, Rahim Sukai, for the use of his private jet anytime she wants it. A simple fix for her morbid fear of flying local airlines, except it comes with an unexpected blast from the past in the form of the Pilot, her childhood friend, Goriola who, it appears, still carries a torch for her.

What follows is a quest to win back the affection of a man who no longer loves her, an unexpected journey with a man who still does, a battle for dominance from a man who will do whatever it takes to get her...

And an awakening she is forced to come to as she relearns everything she has ever known to be true.

Whatever It Takes

"Nobody finds their soulmate at sixteen."

As teenagers, Alero and Bonju fall in love hard and fast, forming a bond that defies all the obstacles in their way. But things come crashing down and their relationship implodes, leaving Alero with a broken heart and a reputation in shreds. Twenty years later, still horribly betrayed, she is unable to be in the same space with him at their high school reunion. But when opportunity presents itself, she is blinded by the desire to strike back, to hurt and humiliate him just as badly as he did to her so many years before.

But they soon discover that there is a thin line between revenge…and falling in love again.

A Betrayed Kind of Love

A decade after overcoming a crippling drug addiction, Tekena’s ‘addict’ label is getting old, especially as he now only indulges in ‘a few’ drinks and ‘harmless’ party pills. Frustrated about not being taken seriously by his family and being unable to raise the money he desperately needs to jumpstart his business, he starts to consider other options.
 
After her wedding is scandalously called off, Ijeoma is convinced she is paying the price for sins of the past. Fed up of the ensuing gossip and mounting pressure from her family to seek religious intervention for her bad luck, she finds herself receptive when an unexpected proposition is thrown her way.
 
Friends for a few years, a one-night stand changes the dynamic of Ijeoma and Tekena’s relationship. But when they decide that marriage will solve both their problems, they go for it regardless, with the condition that intimacy will never again be on the cards. But as love, lust, animosity, treachery, a crippling addiction, and a host of other vices take centre stage, they soon realise that conditions are made to be infringed, promises made to be broken, and soul connections...made to be shattered.

Any Love

"Love rules without rules."

After a ten-year long engagement, the love between childhood sweethearts, Ogugua and Jachike, comes to an abrupt end, with Jachike marrying someone else. Years later, a text message leaves Ogugua battling a whirlwind of emotions after many years spent loathing him. And when tragedy throws them back in each other’s company, they have to decide whether to work their way back to their love…or walk away from each other for good.

After the loss of his older brother, Olumese finds himself captivated by Ogugua, and is determined to win her heart, irrespective of a daunting ten-year age difference.

Initially caught between these two men – her first love who is still married to another woman, and the way-too-young man whose love for her is like nothing she has ever known – Ogugua soon finds herself at a crossroads, afraid to surrender to a love she worries is a unicorn...a beautiful fairy tale unable to survive in the real world.

Until an unexpected bombshell changes everything.

A Broken Kind of Love

Tomiloju and Ikenna have been best friends since high school. Both academic high flyers, they’ve always had a lot in common and have stayed close without it ever getting romantic. In the years since graduation, they have remained there for each other through personal and professional turmoil. They are each other’s safety net, and as they head for their 20-Year High School Reunion, they are banking on each other for the support they both know they’ll need. They are inseparable the whole weekend...until a slip reveals things weren’t always only platonic for one of them, disrupting their dynamic of over two decades. Can their friendship survive it? 

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An Unlikely Kind of Love

2021

Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi

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Books by Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi

Iya Beji

The One!

The Love Triangle

Ginika's Bridesmaids: Isioma

Ginika's Bridesmaids: Ife

Adanna

Accidentally Knocked Up

Golibe

A Love of Convenience

Ginika’s Bridesmaids: Ozioma

Faith's Pregnancy Diary

Ginika's Bridesmaids: Ara

You Used To Love Me

Ginika's Bridesmaids: Ginika

You, Me... Them!

The Sisters

Jaiye Jaiye

Call Me Legachi

A Complicated Kind of Love

Whatever It Takes

A Betrayed Kind of Love

Any Love

A Broken Kind of Love

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