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
When a brutal assault by Nigeria’s notorious SARS unit shatters Ejiro’s world, her fury sparks a digital uprising that spills into the streets. In the chaos of the #EndSARS protests, she crosses paths with Tunde Alade—a reclusive tech billionaire with scars of his own. As tear gas clouds the air and chants shake the nation, their fight for justice becomes a fight for each other. But when bullets rain down at Lekki Toll Gate, love and revolution collide—and survival comes at a cost.
Every evening, Bunmi Adeyemi boards the 6:15 train from Manhattan to Queens, surrounded by the same tired faces, the same predictable routine, the same quiet loneliness.
But one night, a chance encounter with a stranger—a poet with knowing eyes and a charming smile—shakes the rhythm of her commute.
In a city where connections are fleeting and love feels like a mirage, can a conversation on a crowded subway change everything?
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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
She meets a guy she likes. He doesn’t call or text as often as she’d like. Yet she shrugs it off and says, “It’s nothing. English is not his first language.” It’s not a habit per se, It’s just his thing. He likes being chased, Satisfied with having her call and text him. So, she…