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Reclaiming the Ledger
READING AGE 16+
Somto Akpu
Realistic Urban
ABSTRACT
One hidden identity. Two opposing worlds. A truth that could bridge them both—or burn them down.
In the city, Sobeife was a mathematical prodigy, a top-tier economist with the world at her feet—until a ruthless frame-up stripped her of her career and her dignity. Now, she is a ghost. Hiding in the quiet village of Umuagu, she spends her days behind a rhythmic sewing machine, burying her brilliance under stacks of Ankara fabric.
Her only connection to her past is a secret, leather-bound ledger hidden beneath her workbench—a record of the corruption that ruined her.Her carefully constructed silence is shattered when Jidenna, a visionary architectural engineer, arrives to build a bridge that would modernize the village.
Jidenna is a man of logic and steel, but he quickly realizes the project’s accounts are bleeding money to local greed. When he discovers a set of anonymous, perfectly calculated corrections in his files, his gaze falls on the "simple" village seamstress.As they strike a dangerous deal to save the project, the professional becomes deeply personal.
Jidenna sees the genius Sobeife is trying to hide; Sobeife sees a man worth risking her safety for. But the bridge they are building is funded by the very shadows she fled, and they are coming to finish what they started.
With the eyes of the city and the heart of the village upon her, Sobeife must decide: will she keep her head down and survive, or will she finally pick up her pen and Reclaim the Ledger?