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For My Child, I Will Rise.

For My Child, I Will Rise.

She fell in love with the way he protected a stranger. It never crossed her mind to ask — who would protect her from him? Amara thought she had found the kind of love women pray for. Dayo was calm where the world was chaotic, gentle where life was rough. He was the man who stepped into a violent crowd to save a stranger — the man who made her believe that good men still existed. So when he chose her, she chose him back. Completely. Their love was the kind that made people smile. Family approved. Friends envied. The wedding felt like a beginning of everything good. But good things can hide sharp edges. Slowly — so slowly she almost didn't notice — the man who once protected a stranger began to become the thing she needed protection from. The gentleness curdled into control. The calm became something colder. And the love she had built her whole life around began to cost her more than she ever agreed to pay. Then she found out she was pregnant. And everything changed. Because now it wasn't just her life she was living for. For My Child, I Will Rise is the story of one woman's journey through love, loss, and the quiet, terrifying courage it takes to choose yourself — and your daughter — before it's too late. It is a story for every woman who has ever stayed too long. For every woman who has ever been told she was too much and not enough at the same time. For every woman who looked at her child and finally found the reason to rise. Some love stories teach you about love. This one teaches you about survival.

Ifeoma Goodness Fidelix Ifeoma Goodness Fidelix
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The River That Spoke… and Was Ignored.

The River That Spoke… and Was Ignored.

After the hunter Okeke loses his shadow, the black river at the edge of Umudi speaks for the first time in a hundred years. It delivers a terrifying warning: "Leave before the next full moon. Something has been sleeping under my water for a thousand years, and it is about to wake up." But when Okeke and the immortal Bone Speaker Dembo bring the warning to the village, the elders mock them, the villagers turn away, and even those closest to them refuse to believe. Strange signs begin to appear, a stream dries up overnight, drums fall silent, fires burn cold blue. A group of men sent to investigate the river discover the bottom is covered with thousands of human bones arranged in ancient words. The river rises, flooding the village and trapping everyone. But the water is not trying to drown them. It is trying to show them the truth: the real moon mother Nneoma has been chained at the bottom of the river for three hundred years, replaced in the sky by a false shadow moon. The spider Udude trapped her there as part of a forbidden deal with Death. To free her, Dembo must dive into the river and speak every forgotten name of every child who ever died without air, without stopping, without forgetting a single one. But at the last moment, he forgets the most important name. As the darkness closes in and the moon mother begins to sink forever, a small hare watching from the grass reveals it knows the secret. What does the hare know? And how can such a tiny creature challenge the most powerful ruler of the wild? The truth will shatter everything.

Nathaniel Ethe Nathaniel Ethe
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One Night-Stand With The Stranger

One Night-Stand With The Stranger

Ayoola Olamide

One night. One secret. One billionaire boss who remembers everything. Five years ago, a heartbroken dare led Halen into the arms of a devastating stranger. The morning after, he vanished, leaving only a memory—and a life-changing secret she’s raised alone. Now, the struggling single mom finally lands her dream job. But her new CEO is Nathan Harrington: the same man whose whiskey-colored eyes still haunt her dreams. He’s richer, more powerful, and more determined than ever. And when he discovers the son he never knew he had, Nathan isn’t asking for a second chance. He’s demanding a future. But between boardroom battles, a vicious media circus, and his own ruthless family, claiming his family might cost them everything they’ve just found.

The Boy who tried to carry sunset.

The Boy who tried to carry sunset.

Lilly writes

In a village a boy named Kofi tries to capture the sunset because he wants to possess its beautiful golden light. He climbs a mountain and stretches out his hands to grab it, but an old man stops him. The old man explains that if Kofi takes the sunset, the moon will be too afraid to rise, the stars won't know where to shine, and the night will lose its magic. He teaches Kofi that the most beautiful things aren't meant to be held ,they are meant to "hold" us, just as stories hold a community together. Kofi returns home with an empty basket given to him by the old man, but also with a new story to share by the fire, realizing he has brought back something far more valuable than gold.

LOVE IN THE LAB

LOVE IN THE LAB

Esther Odesola

Amara never expected her biggest academic rival to become the one person she couldn’t stop thinking about. When she is forced to partner with Daniel, the confident, secretive, and dangerously charming student who constantly challenges her, their competition in the laboratory turns into intense confrontation, silent tension, and unexpected attraction. But Daniel is hiding something. Something connected to his transfer to the school… and to Amara’s past. As jealousy spreads across campus, friendships are tested, rumours begin to surface, and buried secrets slowly rise to the surface, threatening to destroy everything they are building. In a world where love and ambition collide, will they fight each other… or fight for each other?

Shadow Work

Shadow Work

Unyin_Writes

"I watched him die. I watched him fall into the black heart of the Lagoon. So why is he leaving me gifts made of human skin?" ​Five years ago, Tope was the "Golden Boy" of the Lagos Major Crimes Unit, a profiler who could think like a monster until he became one. But when he failed to stop The Tailor, a surgical serial killer who sews his victims into grotesque masterpieces, Tope didn't just lose the case. He lost his partner, his badge, and his mind. ​Now, Tope is a "Yesterday Man," a ghost haunting the city, working a dead-end security job and drowning his PTSD in bitter kola nuts and cheap gin. He thought the nightmares were over. He thought the Tailor was dead. ​ He was wrong. ​When a body is found suspended in a Lagos skyscraper, displayed with the Tailor’s signature golden thread, the message is clear. But this time, it’s personal. Carved into the victim’s chest is one word: TOPE. Forced back into a world that despises him, Tope must navigate a city fueled by corruption and ancient superstitions. With a skeptical forensic psychologist and detective as his only ally and a younger sister who has just become the killer’s next obsession, Tope must decide: How much of his soul is he willing to sew into the darkness to catch the man who owns his past?

Sweet summer Love

Sweet summer Love

Sunshine

Sofia Johnson was a bright, hopeful teenager who moved with her family to Ashwood City, a place filled with new faces and unexpected turns. She once believed life was a bed of roses, never realizing how sharp the thorns of reality could be. “I know I wouldn’t have come this far without you,” she whispered. “But how will life be now that I can no longer hold on to you?” Love, she thought, was supposed to be about me and you. She knew she had deep, undeniable feelings, but did he feel the same way? As her family struggled to find their footing in their new home, Sofia wondered if she could still find comfort and stability. And through it all, would her best friend Alice stand by her side until the very end?

The whispered of the third main land bridge

The whispered of the third main land bridge

Moyo olayiwola

Synopsis In the sleepless heart of Lagos, something ancient stirs beneath the third main land bridge. Ride share driver Femi is exhausted drowning in debt, pressure and the endless grinding in Lagos. One night at exactly 1:13 AM, traffic freezes unnaturally at the bridge midpoint, his radio turned on by itself, and a calm voice whispered from it a simple command, stop the car, and stepped outside. The driver around him obey, all walking towards the railing of the bridge with empty smiles, beneath the dark lagoon, something vast moves and unseen but felt, feeding on human despair concentrate by the bridge night grid lock. Femi narrowed escape the pull, saved by a mysterious woman who reveals the terrifying truth, the bridge isn't just a concrete and steel, it's the hunting, below the creature, harvest exhaustion, regret, surrender and bad emotions from thousand who crossed the bridge daily and once it mark it target it never forget and it uses desperate ways to get his prey. Now targeted by the entity, Femi must choose between fleeing the night road of Lagos or he should confront a force older than the city it self, before the whispered finally convinced him to let go everything he had known.

Obsidian heart

Obsidian heart

Dollie🍒

Josh thought the night walk home from the library would be ordinary… until a black car nearly ran him over. The driver, Evod, is a dangerous, ruthless mafia boss—and the moment he sees Josh, he becomes obsessed. Caught between fear and fascination, Josh doesn’t know if he’s being drawn in by danger… or desire.With Evod’s possessive gaze on him and his witty assistant Malik watching from the shadows, Josh’s life is about to change forever.

The House That Raised My Silence

The House That Raised My Silence

Adesuwa🌸

I ran down the dusty street , my heart pounding not knowing if I was escaping or running straight into more trouble .

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Contract Marriage in Abuja

Contract Marriage in Abuja

Oyekunbi

Ayomide Lawson is a talented but struggling fashion designer in Abuja, fighting to keep her small atelier from shutting down. When a financial crisis threatens everything she has built, she receives an unexpected proposal from Tade Bello - a rising young politician with ambition in his eyes and a scandal shadowing his campaign. He needs a respectable wife to secure public trust. She needs money to save her dream. It’s a simple contract. One year. No feelings. No complications. But behind staged smiles, public appearances, and political pressure, something real begins to grow. And when secrets threaten to expose the truth behind their marriage, Ayomide and Tade must decide: Was this ever just a contract?

The Julius' Shindig

The Julius' Shindig

DameValuta

Yewande, still hung up on the ex who dumped her, decided to attend his 50th birthday party only to end up disgraced and embarrassed by his wife.

Fine Boy No Pimple..But Dead?

Fine Boy No Pimple..But Dead?

Skyfallgirll

“Fine Boy No Pimple… But Dead?” Adaora thought working the morgue at LUTH was boring—until she met a corpse that shouldn’t exist. Perfect skin, hypnotic eyes… and very much alive. One bite, thirty blood bags, and a Lagos night she’ll never forget. Love, danger, and secrets as old as the city itself collide in a story where death isn’t the end—and one wrong choice could cost everything.

Pains of Abigail

Pains of Abigail

Daisy Kems

My name is Abigail. I'm 17 years of age, but what I'm passing through right now is beyond my age. I have a younger brother. He's the only one I have in this evil world. My parents? I don't know my father but I know my mother until she also couldn't stand us because of the shame and left us. How can a mother abandon her own children? How? But I guess that's my own luck. Good luck... No that was what I thought untill affliction reveal it's true face. The Davis household shattered me nothing left. Join me in my journey. I assure you, you will cry and sympathize with me. At just 17!!