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Peju Oladiran has built the life everyone expected of her, including a marriage to Tunji, the son of one of Nigeria’s most powerful men. From the outside, it looks perfect. Peju knows better.
Chukwurah Nsolo has spent years trying to forget her. When he returns to Lagos for Detty December, seeing Peju again is the one part of his trip he hasn’t planned. Fifteen years have passed, and neither of them knows what they’ll say when they meet.
Description
In Lagos, where wealth gleams, secrets ferment, and love is never a simple thing, three lives find themselves tangled in a story that stretches across continents and nearly two decades.
Peju Oladiran, elegant, disciplined, and dutiful almost to a fault, has built her life according to expectations: a prestigious degree, a respectable job, and eventually, a marriage to Tunji Alade, the impeccably bred son of one of Nigeria’s most powerful men. Their union is a spectacle of class and elegance, a merging of families and aspirations. But beneath the careful symmetry of their marriage lies a quiet, sinking truth: Peju has crafted her life to please everyone but herself.
And then, without warning, her past knocks.
Chukwurah Nsolo, once the boy she whispered life into from two ends of the Atlantic, returns to Lagos for Detty December, his own life caught between stagnation and possibility. He has spent years drifting: quitting jobs, nursing heartbreaks, caring for his chaotic cousin Chike, and sketching the one woman he could never fully erase. The plan was simple: work a grueling warehouse job in Delaware, save aggressively, travel to Nigeria, and maybe, just maybe, see Peju again.
But Nigeria has its own way of rewriting destinies.
