7 Nigerian Romance eBooks to Read Next on Sọna

strictly planned routine. Crossing paths with Jamal Olamilekan Bakare, a charming artist with a passion for life, was even more unlikely. Yet, when Jamal asks her out on three dates, with the promise to leave her alone if she doesn't feel a connection, Imani must decide if she's willing to take a chance on love and risk disrupting her carefully ordered world. He's everything she could ever want, and she's it for him. But will their love be strong enough to overcome their fears, or will it fizzle out after the three dates?

parents’ marriage is breaking apart, her best friend is losing a fight with osteosarcoma, and prom is just another reminder that she has no date, no interest, and no energy left to pretend she’s okay. Still, she refuses to let it swallow her whole. Happiness comes in flashes, small and fragile, but she clings to them anyway, wishing she could make them last. Then she meets Enzo, the transfer student with impossible blue eyes, unruly curls, and an unapologetic love for cake, who believes happiness isn’t something you wait for someday, but something you choose right now. And maybe, just maybe, he’s right. For readers who loved To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty, and anyone who lives for the kind of romance that keeps you smiling long after the lights go out.

screams control. Until Bashirah storms into his life like a sunrise he never asked for. She’s loud, stubborn, and impossible to ignore. She laughs too much, talks too fast, and somehow makes him want to ruin his perfect image just to keep her smiling. But love isn’t simple when family power, old traditions, and broken promises come crashing in. When her father forbids their marriage and duty threatens to tear them apart, everything comes down to whether they are strong enough to fight side by side — and what fate awaits a love that refuses to bend.

begins to quietly weave them together across Nigeria and the UK. What begins as power, legacy, and control slowly unravels into something far more dangerous: truth. Salma Babajo has always worn her father’s name like armour—proud, disciplined, untouchable. She believes in legacy and control, in the idea that everything earned must be protected at all costs. But beneath her certainty are cracks she refuses to see… until they begin to break open. Kabir Yabo is everything Salma is not—careful, composed, and shaped by expectations he never chose. He lives cautiously, speaks softly, and avoids anything that might disturb the life written for him. They were never meant to collide. But when their worlds cross, the illusion they were raised to protect begins to fracture. And in a world built on silence, status, and secrets, the truth may cost them everything. Will they hold onto the lives they were given—or risk it all for something neither of them was prepared for?

at pulling her readers into her dreamy rom-com worlds—so much so that she was nicknamed the queen of the genre. But when a devastating event tethers her off her high ground, silencing her words and shattering her rose-colored glasses, she starts to wonder if she even believes in the happily-ever-afters she writes. With a looming deadline, a heartbreak that doesn’t care what she has going on, and a soul she no longer recognizes, he walks in. Imran Shaheer. Steady, playful, handsome—but not hers. It wasn’t supposed to mean anything. Nothing was supposed to happen. But Mahira soon finds herself clinging to the hope of him, until he becomes everything. This isn't just a story about stolen touches and romance. It's about the choices we regret... and the ones we'd make all over again even knowing how they end.

scarred-face like her. When Okwy Akunanya, the handsome and arrogant devil, a guy who mocked, and sneered at her all through high school because of her looks, returns home from the United States and picks her to be his wife, she is shocked. Is his proposal a gimmick or is it actually real love?

Bold, sharp-tongued, and fiercely independent, Chinonye has never believed in being chosen easily. Life has taught her to guard her heart, keep her expectations low, and walk away before she gets hurt. Then she meets Olamide—steady, intentional, and dangerously sincere. As guarded conversations turn into something deeper, Olamide sees a woman worth choosing every single day. Chinonye sees only the reasons he deserves better. So she walks away. Until five friends step in like fairy godmothers, only it may already be too late. Set against cultural differences, quiet longing, and honest conversations, Not Quite Cindarella is a tender African romance about self-worth, vulnerability, and the risk of accepting love when it finally arrives. From the oil city to the brown roofs, she found a love she never thought she deserved.