What We Left Behind: Not Every Flame Dies

By MARY M. SLESSOR

A Second-Chance Romance Set on a Nigerian University Campus
Five years ago, Amaka Okoye walked away from heartbreak and into a life built on ambition, research, and resilience. Now a rising academic voice on gender and silence in African institutions, she's sworn never to look back - especially not at Tunde, the man who left when she needed him most.
But fate has a sense of timing.
When a research fellowship brings her back to the same university campus where their love began - and unraveled - Amaka must confront everything she thought she buried: the past, the pain, and the pull she still feels toward the man she once trusted with her heart.
Tunde has changed. Or so he says. Older, steadier, and determined not to let her go this time, he wants a second chance. But can love survive when the woman you loved has rebuilt herself from ashes?
As old sparks reignite and buried truths surface, Amaka is forced to choose: between the future she's chasing and the love she thought she left behind.
A story of memory, forgiveness, and the courage to love without losing yourself, What We Left Behind is a deeply emotional novella about what it means to come home - to a place, a person, and most of all, to yourself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FD2VZZ1X
• ISBN13: 9798287789213
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"