One impossible choice: the man who bought you or the freedom you never chose to lose?
On an ordinary Lagos evening, Scarlet Anderson returns from her shift at Eden Bistro to find her apartment empty-and her most precious painting gone. The portrait she named after herself, the one that captured everything she was fighting to become, has vanished. Taken by James, the man she's been supporting for years. The man she chose to believe in.
By morning, Scarlet wakes in a mansion on Banana Island, drugged and delivered like merchandise. Jason Delumier-a man she's never met-has paid twenty-five million naira for her. He calls it an arrangement. She calls it what it is: being bought.
As she navigates the dangerous space between captivity and choice, between a man learning to let go and a woman learning to choose herself, Scarlet must answer an impossible question: Can love built on a broken foundation ever become real? Or is freedom the only choice worth making?
A POWERFUL STORY OF AGENCY, ART, AND CHOOSING YOURSELF FOR FANS OF ABBY JIMENEZ AND EMILY HENRY