One stolen painting. Two men who want her. One woman who is finally learning what she is worth. On a warm Lagos evening, Scarlet Anderson walks into the Delumier Gallery and sees her own painting hanging on the wall - with another man's name beneath it. The man who stole it is James: charming, beautiful, and the person she has given everything to. The man who bought it is Jason Delumier: controlled, powerful, and utterly certain that he wants to marry a woman he has never met.
So begins a story that moves between a cramped flat in Yaba and a sixteen-room house on Banana Island, between a woman who has forgotten what she deserves and a man who is slowly learning that possession is not the same as love - as Scarlet navigates betrayal, desire, and the most dangerous question she has ever asked herself:What would it cost to choose herself?
One stolen painting. Two men who want her. One woman who is finally learning what she is worth. On a warm Lagos evening, Scarlet Anderson walks into the Delumier Gallery and sees her own painting hanging on the wall - with another man's name beneath it. The man who stole it is James: charming, beautiful, and the person she has given everything to. The man who bought it is Jason Delumier: controlled, powerful, and utterly certain that he wants to marry a woman he has never met.
So begins a story that moves between a cramped flat in Yaba and a sixteen-room house on Banana Island, between a woman who has forgotten what she deserves and a man who is slowly learning that possession is not the same as love - as Scarlet navigates betrayal, desire, and the most dangerous question she has ever asked herself:What would it cost to choose herself?