Dreame - Reclaiming the Ledger
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Reclaiming the Ledger
book-rating-imgREADING 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?