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Oluwatoyin Olubukola
THE PREGNANT BLOOD is a gripping Nigerian family drama filled with secrets, betrayal, mystery, and suspense. After a poor couple makes a life-changing decision, tragedy tears their family apart. Eighteen years later, their two daughters are left to survive on their own when a mysterious and dangerous man named Jagaban enters their lives. But Jagaban’s connection to their family goes deeper than they could ever imagine. After a terrifying night changes everything, the sisters discover a shocking secret that leaves them with one question they desperately need answered. Who is the father of their unborn children? Some family secrets are better left buried.
The Reaper
Maria Benson is just a 200-level university student trying to live a normal life, until she suddenly inherits the magical powers of her great grandmother. At first, Maria sees her new abilities as nothing more than fun. But when the spirit of her great grandmother, Sarah, appears to her, Maria discovers that her powers came from a dark deal made decades ago. Sarah wanted power. She got it. But every deal with the supernatural has a price. Now an ancient demon named Calius has come to collect what he believes belongs to him. Maria must learn to control powers she never asked for while uncovering the truth about her family’s past. But the more she learns about Sarah’s deal, the more she realizes something terrifying: She may not have inherited Sarah’s powers. She may have inherited her debt.
Favourspen
Sixteen-year-old Amara has always believed she knows her family. She lives a comfortable life with her wealthy parents in Lagos, surrounded by everything a girl her age could want. But for as long as she can remember, Amara has been haunted by the same nightmare: a terrified woman crying in a dark room while her father drags her behind a locked door. Everyone tells Amara it's nothing more than a childhood nightmare. Then, one ordinary afternoon, Amara discovers a hidden door inside her father's wardrobe. Behind it is a room that should not exist. And inside that room is a woman who has been imprisoned for years. A woman Amara has never met. A woman whose face she has seen countless times in her dreams. The woman's name is Lydia, and she claims she was once the family's maid. She also claims that Amara's entire childhood is built on a lie. As Amara secretly returns to the room, Lydia slowly reveals a horrifying story of abuse, betrayal and captivity. She tells Amara that Victor, the man Amara has called her father all her life, destroyed her life and took away something she could never replace. Her child. The more Amara investigates, the more pieces of her childhood begin to fall apart. Old memories suddenly make sense. Questions she never thought to ask become impossible to ignore. And the people she trusted most begin behaving like strangers. But Lydia's story is only the beginning. Amara soon discovers that her family has been hiding more than one secret. Victor's respectable image conceals a dangerous criminal world, while Esther—the woman Amara has always called her mother—may know far more about Lydia's imprisonment than she admits. As Amara gets closer to the truth, she realizes that exposing her parents could destroy the life she has always known. But keeping silent could leave Lydia trapped forever. And when the people responsible realize that Amara knows too much, she becomes their biggest threat. Because the woman behind the door isn't the only secret her family has buried. And the truth about who Amara really is could change everything.
Zeebaby
At exactly 11:11 p.m., Amira begins receiving mysterious messages from an unknown number. What starts as a strange warning soon becomes a terrifying journey into memories she was never meant to recover.
Bridgette Jadynane
SUMMARY: ||The Rise Of Carnimus: TROC|| Quick heads-up on Xorev. Xorev: A mixture my father, Elias Civorison, made. To bring the dead back. But the moon and water demand balance. The cost: Zero peace. Misery. Static regret. You feed on human hearts. Burning. Uncontrollable. You watch everyone you love die. You live. Forever. • Most times, you’re the reason they die. Eternity of loneliness. Unforgettable pain. Will you risk it? My father did. AND NOW I’M THE ROC. The first of them. He turned me into a Carnimus. With one dose. Not to live. To avenge his death. To protect my mother. I did the opposite. I tore her heart from her chest with my own hands. And I didn't stop there. Half of Texol City was left heartless. I wasn’t myself. I was transforming. When my eyes turned brown again, the dead outnumbered the living. So I ran. For more than a century. Hiding from the world. Hiding from me. Everything changed the day I went back. With flowers. To the cemetery. To her grave. To see my mom one last time. Felt her bones turning to sand. Before I could flee, I saw her. A girl with my mother’s exact face. The same face from the photo I’ve carried for 100 years. "What the—" I had to know her. Not for answers. For the chance to feel close to my mom again. So I followed her. Into a high school. Into her life. Burying what I am. Until I got tangled with her brother. Believe me, everything changed. "I'm a carnimus. You are human. We have no path."
Obi_Ogbuehi
The sudden disappearance of a child sends a family down the depths of pain and uncertainty. In just one night, dark secrets reveals itself in the actions of a family member.
jmasterj
It was 1974, on the edge of Karuizawa. Everyone on the mountain road knew the Aoki house. It wasn't the biggest house, but it was the only one that kept its lights on. All night. Every window. That same impossible yellow…
QueenetWrites
Sophia was supposed to be on a flight back to Lagos, but fate had other plans for her. Her NYSC posting letter sends her to Neku, a village so obscure that even her platoon officer has never heard of it. Yet when she finally arrives, tucked between rolling green hills beneath a purple-orange sky, the people are waiting for her. They are almost too happy to see her, claiming she was the first Corper they ever received. Neku is beautiful, but fear lives there. Beyond its hills, neighbouring villages are being emptied one after another by armed invaders. Homes have burned, farms have been abandoned, and families sleep with bags packed beside their beds. Death tolls was too much yet the media publicise it falsely. And somehow, Sophia's arrival has given the people of Neku hope. It begins with a priest touching the strange birthmark on her wrist and whispering a name she has never heard before. ODELUWA. From since that encounter, strange things started happening to her, haunting her. And despite her dead mother warnings to leave the village, she couldn't. And while the horrors of Neku persisted, she met the man whom she'll fall in love with, but was destined to destroy her. With him, she dug deeper Sophia digs into Neku's past, discovered lies she's been told. And one day, when the armed men have come to spill blood on the land, Sophia would suffer the worst just to liberate the people of Neku. But the most emotional part is the part where Odeluwa leaves.
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Felix King
An African-Korean college student, Chisom Grace Hwang reluctantly volunteered to be part of an international programme that was to hold in Nigeria, the homeland of a father she barely remembered. Since he disappeared from her life when she was seven, and legally declared dead years after, Grace had no strong foundational knowledge about her African cultural heritage, just living the simple Busan girl life, an elite student of Yonsei University. And when she made the decision to board the plane to Lagos with her luggage packed and ready, she thought all life had to offer was Kimchi and Bibimbap. Welcome to the 3rd Annual Global Heritage Story Project. For the first two weeks of the summer programme, she cried home, longing for the comfort of her sofa in Haeundae, too homesick to appreciate the tropical climate, and vibrant culture that Nigeria offered. But then things changed. what turned to be an activity to build her resumé and perhaps network turned into something life changing. From Lagos to Enugu, and then in the bustling streets of Onitsha, Grace came to realize that when Kimchi met Jollof, she finally found the missing half of herself. She got to learn about her culture, taste dishes that satisfied her buds, attempt to speak her dialect as fluent as she could, connect with her cousins, and relatives. And then she found an answer to a question, she had long forgotten she asked. The very question, that kept her up at night, and of course, no one answered And there she was standing at the greatest turning point of her life, facing a choice she never imagined she would make, continue living the comfortable life she had always known, or follow what could finally lead her to the father the world believed was dead.
Osasu Nwanne
Eliav has always suspected that his wife, Benita, loved his half-brother Omari more than she ever loved him. When Benita loses her memories after a kidnapping, that suspicion becomes impossible to ignore. Though she remembers no one, Omari is the only person capable of drawing out pieces of the woman she used to be. As old insecurities resurface, Eliav must also hunt down a traitor hidden within MALAIKA, the powerful criminal syndicate he leads. With an estranged brother working against them from the shadows and tensions threatening to tear the organisation apart, Eliav finds himself fighting battles on every front. The question haunting him most, however, isn't who betrayed him. It's whether Benita ever truly chose him at all.
InspiredPen
A Woman, A Mischief At fifty-six, Eniola is everything her family once prayed for. Respected businesswoman. Church leader. Provider. Survivor. The first person in generations to escape the quiet poverty that swallowed both sides of her family. But inside the silence of her success lives a question she has spent decades avoiding: What did it cost her to become this woman? Born into a crowded polygamous household in southwestern Nigeria, Eniola grows up brilliant, disciplined, and dangerously hopeful. While beauty opens doors around her, poverty keeps shutting them. Denied university despite extraordinary academic promise, she leaves home young and enters Life carrying faith, ambition, and an unspoken terror of becoming trapped like the women before her. As years pass, Eniola builds a life through ruthless discipline and moral restraint, refusing the shortcuts many around her accept for survival. Her rise appears miraculous. Yet beneath her success, strange prophecies, fractured memories, emotional isolation, and buried grief begin gathering like shadows. Then old memories begin returning. A hospital corridor. A missing truth. A decision nobody fully understands. And a sentence she once tried to forget: “You cannot keep both.” Moving across decades, secrets, church culture, family wounds, and the fragile line between spiritual destiny and inherited trauma, A Woman, A Mischief is a nonlinear literary mystery about motherhood, sacrifice, survival, and the silent ways people disappear inside the lives they fought to build.
Mr. Z
In the shadowy underbelly of Nigeria’s political elite, investigative journalist Iniobong has unearthed a conspiracy that could shake the nation. When sixteen gifted students from a prestigious College of Technology in Kogi State are abducted in a daring night raid by men in military uniforms, all evidence points to a deadly alliance between corrupt practices, religion, and powerful business interests. Hired by a casual friend and Senator to clear the his name and expose the truth behind an innovative AI project the students created, Iniobong quickly finds himself marked for elimination. One humid night in a high-end Abuja lounge, Iniobong is seduced and woven intoby the enigmatic and ruthless Udoka Egwunba, a once-celebrated journalist turned blogger contracted to deliver him to the feared Chairman of the investigative committee. But just as Udoka prepares to hand him over, breaking news shatters the night: Three powerful lawmakers have been assassinated. Suddenly, every major character of the night became the hunted. With killers closing in and the explosive truth about the missing students still buried, Iniobong and Udoka are forced into a reluctant alliance. As they flee through the backroads of Nigeria , from deluxe lounges to Kogi swamps circling back Northern highways to damnation, they must navigate betrayal, hidden agendas, and a web of political violence where no one is truly innocent.
