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With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves through her family, Kehinde is forced to put aside her dreams of writing and become the third wife of Mr Ogunjobi. Kehinde makes her peace by selling snacks at a small market. When she gets the chance to assist the leader of the Lagos Women’s Market Association, fighting for the rights the British are trying to take away, Kehinde finally feels useful again. But if her husband finds out he’ll abandon her.

Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back—but she has to do something for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back that can't be scratched. An itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny, to defend her people by becoming a leopard. But as the two girls reckon with their burgeoning wildness and the legacy of their fathers' decisions, Ozoemena's fellow students at her new boarding school start to vanish.

Jantsia Brittle is a liar. Her blue eyes mark her as Azure, the lowest caste in the Empire of Shariza, but she’s a fraud. If her best friend knew the truth of her parentage, it could put an end to their easy friendship. It could put an end to her life. When Jantsia’s world collides with a downtrodden family’s fight for freedom, and the undercover mission of a conflicted imperial agent, dangerous secrets come to light. Secrets capable of destroying friendships, families – and maybe even an empire.

Everything about Adeline Copplefield is a lie . . . To the world Mrs Copplefield is the epitome of Victorian propriety: an exemplary society lady who writes a weekly column advising young ladies on how to be better wives.