She orders the same coffee every day—a cortado with a whisper of cinnamon. He’s been waiting four months to ask her name.
Wallace knows precisely when she’ll walk through the door: 8:43 AM, Monday through Friday. As a barista with dreams bigger than his tip jar and a heart more fragile than the foam art he creates, he’s perfected her order but fumbled every chance to learn who she really is.
Donald has spent his entire life in love with Annette Thuraya—his childhood friend, college roommate, and now business partner in their successful interior design firm. Despite their perfect chemistry and the countless remarks about what a beautiful couple they make, Annette has kept him firmly in the friend zone since their failed kiss at eighteen. After years of silent longing, Donald finally decides to make his move on Valentine’s Day by leaving a note that could change everything.
CW: Sex, Language
Being seventeen and about to graduate from secondary school should have been good, only it isn’t, at least not for Naeto.
With desiring a life contrary to his father’s plans, getting a full-ride scholarship to a top-tier ballet academy in Arizona, and simmering sexual tension threatening to ruin his friendship with his best friend Zino, Naeto’s life is a twisting mass of complications.
A twisty mess that thrusts him into a world of lies, awakened desire, secrets, and questions about the person he is becoming.
Sodiq Nasir, a highly celebrated motivational speaker, has the power of the tongue but nothing for his sanity. To silence the limiting voices in his head and keep his raving fans mentally and emotionally pumped, Sodiq resorts to drugs. On the night of a star-studded event, his manager finds him unconscious in his hotel room and rushes him to a rehabilitation Centre on the outskirts of Lagos.
When he awakes on the bed of Rediscover Rehabilitation Centre, a private home open to a select few and aimed at helping people fight addictions, Sodiq begins a long battle to break his drug dependence. But finds he’s becoming armed with a darker addiction; an obsession with the proprietor of RRC, Ọyáwálé Adisa.
Keywords: Second Chances
Heat Level: 3
What do you say to a girl you met on Instagram, a girl you’ve felt vexed at for unfollowing you, one you’ve socially stalked and wondered if you’d ever meet, and when you finally do get the chance to meet her, you stare at her for long-friggin-minutes after she’d all but dried her teeth in…