Emem Bassey writes contemporary Nigerian romance, including a linked series of women all connected to the same town, Ubiak-Etto. Her books are rated 18+.
A Love At Forty
Usoro turns forty carrying infertility, divorce, unemployment, and everything else she thought she'd have figured out by now.
A Love At Forty
by Emem Bassey
For Usoro, turning forty came with tribulations. She was infertile, fat, got divorced, was…
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unemployed, broke, had rough skin, didn't own decent clothes, struggled with low self-esteem, shouldered eight years’ worth of emotional abuse from her ten year marriage, experienced a friend turned enemy and dwelled in thoughts of a bleak future. When it seemed like the world was caving in, Usoro's unlikely saviour was her ex-husband's driver. She was uncomfortable with the younger man's passion for her, so she held her heart aloft until calamity came to her door. Jacob was smitten with his employer's wife on sight. He hated how his boss treated her and was glad when they divorced. Except she disappeared. Coupled with the case at hand, Jacob frantically searched for Usoro, worrying that he might not see her again. Therefore, when he found her, he pulled out all the stops to remain by her side despite her wariness. However, there's only so much a man can do for a woman unable to recognise love. Meanwhile, the case at hand made a sharp turn into the sinister and Jacob struggled to love, serve and protect.
Show lessAunty Rose
Roseline is a visitor at Ubiak-Etto, and everyone knows it the moment she lands there for her NYSC.
AUNTY ROSE
by Emem Bassey
Roseline is a visitor at Ubiak-Etto.She knows this when people stepped out of their houses to…
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stare at her the moment she landed in the community for her NYSC. And when she's confronted in the market by a witch who blatantly tells her she's a stranger. Her hero is God, but she got arrogant and fell into a trap that left the man she'd come to protect wondering if she's the villain as accused by the villagers. Rose wants Fred, the new principal of the secondary school, to trust her even though the evidence is pretty damning. She wants him to give her the benefit of the doubt because he is the only one who made her body ignite to incinerating levels. WARNING: THIS IS A WEIRD INSTA-LOVE STORY WITH A GUARANTEED HEA. IF YOU LOVE WEIRD, HEART THUMPING, PANT MELTING ROMANCE THAT TAKES YOUR IMAGINATION ON A WILD RIDE - THIS IS SO FOR YOU!
Show lessAunty Vero
Veronica knows she's a visitor at Ubiak-Etto the moment her boyfriend of many years leaves her for someone else, and the town turns on her instead of him.
AUNTY VERO
by Emem Bassey
Veronica is a visitor at Ubiak-Etto. She knows this when her boyfriend of many years leaves…
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her for an eighteen year old girl and everyone turns on her as though she's the one that cheated. And when, months later, she unwittingly walks into the macabre masquerade tradition that no one had warned her about. Her hero is the highest masquerade of the land; the looming beast has to rape her to save her from the others. Is it still rape if tingles of pleasure shoot through her body? WARNING: THIS IS A WEIRD INSTA-LOVE STORY WITH A GUARANTEED HEA. IF YOU LOVE WEIRD, HEART THUMPING, PANT MELTING ROMANCE THAT TAKES YOUR IMAGINATION ON A WILD RIDE - THIS IS SO FOR YOU!
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Aunty Linda and Season's Miracles round out her catalog on Sọna, both 18+.