Christianese plus romance never felt so damn good. Tomilola Coco Adeyemo
The Bishops Prodigal Daughter is a warm, engaging, and inspiring story about second chances at love, faith and with family.
Eloviano Elo Obrukhe is only returning to her home, the oil rich island of Pakurumo to be a maid of honour at her best friends wedding and nothing else. She is determined to avoid her disapproving mother, jealous sister and the boy next door that has grown into a distractingly handsome man. But nothing about her supposed whirlwind trip could have prepared Elo for her mothers sudden heart attack, nor the impossible-to-resist offer she makes in exchange for Elo helping to run the family church with her more faithful and dutiful sister, Efezino Zino Obrukhe. How could Elo know that this offer would lead to seismic changes in her relationships with her overlooked sister Zino, with her potential soulmate Didi, and with her own fledgling faith?China today is both a land of opportunity for Africans blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America, and an intersection of racism and prejudice.?
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Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Literature & Fiction.
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From international bestselling author?Lola Akinmade kerstrm, the highly anticipated follow-up to her debut novel,?In Every Mirror She's Black,?focusing on the lives of three Black women as they fight their own personal struggles in one of the most egalitarian societies, Sweden.
Can a career woman truly have it all?
Powerful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi has finally found the man she needs, but Tobias Wikstrm thinks she's the most selfish woman he has ever met for asking him to give up his life in Sweden and move to the US for her own comfort. Will Kemi be forced to stay if she wants to keep him while chipping away at her hard-earned career? As things begin to sour and challenge her relationship with Tobias, someone else moves back into the picture.
Can having it all be a gilded cage?
Looking into divorce in Sweden isn't what former model-turned-flight attendant Brittany-Rae von Lundin anticipated. Only jointly owned assets are split evenly between couples. Brittany gave up her career and came with nothing into Jonny's kingdom. Having had a child with him, her greatest fear for Maya includes being cut off from the resources she's become accustomed to. With a man obsessed with a ghost, trying to get away isn't going to be easy. And the deeper she digs into his past, the darker the secrets she unravels.
Can you run from your past to have it all?
After fleeing her home through a client to seek a new life in Sweden, Yasmiin finds love in the arms of Yagiz elik while carving out her own small corner. But as someone from her past forces Yasmiin to become a caretaker before she's ready, she now must confront and move beyond her teenage history, while following her dreams of becoming a makeup artist.
