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The Wedding We Did Not Plan
To stop her family from marrying her off to a man who calls her "an investment," Tope blurts out that she is already engaged — to the one person in Lagos who cannot stand her. Demilade needs a fiancée to satisfy the terms of his late father’s will; Tope needs an alibi for exactly six months. The arrangement is simple, businesslike, and absolutely temporary. Then come the aso-ebi fittings, the meddling aunties, the one shared umbrella in the Lagos rain — and the slow, terrifying realization that the hardest thing to fake is not being in love. A slow-burn romance with teeth.
Ongoing25 chaptersRomance · Contemporary · Drama
The Last Bellows
An old Sunsteel smith, the last of his rung, retires to a forgotten village to die quietly. The village has other plans — and so do the three orphans who keep stealing his tools. A gentler tale from the Ardent Reaches about the craft you leave behind.
Ongoing25 chaptersCultivation · Fantasy · Slice of Life
The Spider's Ledger
Abena keeps the books for a crossroads spirit — every favor owed, every soul mortgaged, every bargain in the Kingdom of Nine Roads. When an entry appears in the ledger written in her own hand, recording a debt she never made, she must trace it before it comes due.
Ongoing25 chaptersCultivation · Fantasy · Mystery
The Masquerade Owes Me Blood
In the market-city of Onïcha, debts are collected by masks that wear the dead. Nkechi inherited her mother’s mask and her mother’s impossible debt — and a masquerade does not forgive. To free herself she must collect on the one debtor no mask has ever caught: a god.
Ongoing25 chaptersCultivation · Fantasy · Action
Salt, Bone, and Sovereign
They say bone-cultivators are cursed, that the dead they raise eventually raise them. Emeka does not have the luxury of belief — only a dying sister and a forbidden art that the priest-kings hang men for. He will pay any price the bones ask.
Ongoing25 chaptersCultivation · Fantasy · Adventure
I Buried My Master in the Garden
Every disciple dreams of surpassing their master. Few do it with a shovel. Obinna’s master was a monster wearing a saint’s face, and the world will mourn him as a legend. Obinna knows better — and now he must inherit the empire of lies, one buried secret at a time.
Ongoing25 chaptersCultivation · Fantasy · Anti-Hero
The Tutorial Lied
Every player gets the same tutorial when the System arrives: ten safe levels, a friendly guide, a starter class. Chinedu got a tutorial that ended on level one with a death screen — and a guide that whispered, run. The official rules are a lie told to the obedient. He intends to find out why.
Ongoing25 chaptersLitRPG · System · Adventure
The War-Drum of Mombasa
When the great war-drum of the coastal city sounds, every able hand takes up arms — but the drum has not sounded in a hundred years, and the woman tasked with guarding it has just heard it beat on its own.
Ongoing25 chaptersEpic Fantasy · War · Adventure
Spirits Ride the Red Line
Detective Aïssatou works the cases the city files under "unexplained" — the ones that happen on the last train, where the passengers all swear they were alone. A companion to The Night Bus to Houston, riding a different city’s rails.
Ongoing25 chaptersUrban Fantasy · Mystery · Contemporary
Oaths Outlive the Oathmaker
A mercenary swears an oath to a dying queen and finds that in the savanna-kingdoms, an oath is a living thing that does not care if you meant it. It will drag him across a continent to keep a promise he never intended to keep.
Ongoing25 chaptersEpic Fantasy · Adventure · War
