The Man I Was Supposed to Hate

By Ada Kole

Amara has spent her entire life believing one truth: Darius is the man she was never supposed to love.

Raised among secrets, power, and carefully constructed lies, Amara is taught that Darius is her enemy-and, worse, the man she must never trust. But when a buried secret exposes the truth about their past, everything she believes about her family begins to unravel.

Darius has his own demons. Trained to obey, conditioned to protect, and haunted by a command he cannot escape, he is caught between the family that made him and the woman he was never supposed to love.

As danger closes in across Lagos, Amara discovers that their attraction may be more than forbidden-it may be part of a deadly conspiracy.

Now she must choose between the truth that could destroy her and the man she was supposed to hate.

Because sometimes the most dangerous love is the one you were never meant to choose.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8954534651
• ISBN13: 9788954534659
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Empire
• Length: 678 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.4" x 6.0"