The Lagos Love Journals: The Lekki Bride

The Lagos Love Journals: The Lekki Bride is the captivating first novel in The Lagos Love Journals series by Layemi O-I. It plunges readers into the heart of Lagos’s elite society, exploring the high cost of love, wealth, and identity. The novel follows Anjola, a girl-next-door whose life takes an unexpected turn when she marries an older man from a prestigious and immensely powerful family. Anjola is immediately forced to sacrifice her personal ambitions to meet the rigid expectations of her new in-laws, whose unspoken motto is: Family. Wealth. Respect.

Trapped in a life that is beautiful but predictable, Anjola slowly begins to lose herself in the roles of wife and mother. Everything changes when her ex-lover resurfaces, shattering the fragile equilibrium of her world.

Her life is thrown into dramatic chaos, leading her on a thrilling journey that uncovers the hidden truths behind her marriage, the loyalties of her friendships, and even the core of her own identity. Anjola soon discovers that what she had believed was a journey toward finding true love is, in fact, a difficult but necessary journey toward finding herself.

Torn between the allure of limitless wealth, the ghost of true love, and the urgent need for self-reclamation, Anjola must ultimately choose the path to her freedom.