Entrapped: A Novella
How far would you go to secure a better future for the people you love-and what happens when the choices you make to save your family begin to destroy it?
Eze is a brilliant, devoted husband and father struggling to build the life his family expects of him. Despite his education and determination, limited opportunities in Nigeria leave him unable to provide the future he envisions. When the chance comes to pursue a master's degree in the United States, Eze leaves behind his beloved wife, Joyce, and their two daughters, convinced that the painful separation is only temporary.
But America does not deliver the certainty he expected.
As Eze's immigration options begin to disappear, desperation pushes him toward a dangerous solution: a marriage of convenience to an American citizen. Daniella, a former classmate indebted to Eze for his past kindness, unexpectedly offers to help him without asking for payment. What begins as a practical arrangement seems like the answer to his prayers.
Joyce is not so sure.
Her warning is simple: she fears her husband is walking into a trap.
As immigration requirements force Eze and Daniella to share an address, boundaries begin to blur. Loneliness, temptation, gratitude, and desire collide, and one irreversible mistake transforms an arrangement of convenience into something neither family can easily escape.
Spanning Nigeria and the United States, Entrapped is a poignant story of marriage, migration, ambition, betrayal, faith, family expectations, and the devastating consequences of choices made one compromise at a time.
At its heart lies a haunting question: When good intentions lead us down the wrong road, can love survive the consequences?
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