When Amara's mother dies, she is pulled from her quiet village and thrown into the dazzling, dangerous world of her wealthy Aunty Chidinma's Lagos mansion. Aunty Chidinma is generous, beautiful, and relentless. Her love is suffocating, her touch possessive. Trapped in a golden cage, Amara discovers a terrible secret: her mother sacrificed everything to protect her. Now Amara must decide if she wants Aunty's love — or her freedom.
Leo Chase is an orphan, a high-school dropout, and a man the city treats like furniture—wet shoes, shorted paychecks, a rented room that never quite dries. One rain-slick night, a hit-and-run almost erases him. Before the last door closes, a cold presence offers compensation: one wish. It is a Cult Leader System.
Millie's Vast Expanse Offered up for your approval, the life and times of one Elizabeth "Shortcake" Dyer, a woman slight of stature, with an enormous intellect, who pursues retribution with a dogged determination that would make a bulldog proud. A deeply scared woman who never wallowed in self-pity but channeled her rage to helping others. When she ran into brick walls in the pursuit of justice, she manufactured vengeance, for, after all, vengeance has its own sufficiency.
Separated from his wife Richard returns home to live with his widowed mother. Sex with his mother has always been a fantasy and when he finds illicit sex tapes of his mother he is tempted to use them as leverage to coax her into having sex with him. His mother's friends also take an immoral interest in Emily's hunk of a son.