Sold to the General for Bride Price

When hunger drives Lilian from her aunty’s house, she’s dumped with the proud Okoli family—forced to fill an impossible clay jar before they’ll call her wife. Every kobo is earned with blood, sweat, and public shame, but just as the jar fills, her engagement is switched to an even poorer rival family. With her pride and savings in hand, Lilian must choose: suffer for a loveless marriage, or ride away in a battered keke, dignity ringing louder than any wedding bell.

Tunde sacrifices everything for his wife’s family, only to face betrayal when she shames him publicly just to force him to buy a house for her brother. With his respect, marriage, and sanity on the line, Tunde must choose between being used or finally fighting for his own happiness. Will he escape their grip, or lose everything in the process?

After paying ₦2.8 million bride price, Chijioke travels home for Christmas to seal his engagement—only to face a greedy in-law council demanding millions more, plus a house for his fiancée’s brother. Humiliated, abandoned by Ngozi, and driven to the brink as his father lands in hospital from the stress, Chijioke must choose: lose everything for love, or fight a family ready to sell their daughter like cattle. In a world where tradition becomes extortion, how much can one man sacrifice before he breaks?

Midnight rain pounds the zinc as my wife guards her bride price like gold, refusing to save her own mother in the hospital. One IOU, one broken phone, and curses fly as family turns enemy, and tradition becomes a weapon. Tonight, I must choose: betray my marriage vows or let blood spill—because in this house, money is thicker than love.

Princess Adaugo returns home with a secret that could destroy her royal family’s honour. Forced to choose between her love for Musa Bello and her duty to the kingdom, she faces betrayal, gossip, and the heavy price of peace. In a world where a woman’s worth is traded for war, will Adaugo’s heart survive the storm?

Tunde faces shocking betrayal on his wedding day when his girlfriend’s parents demand an outrageous ₦50 million security deposit, threatening to shatter his dreams and disgrace his family. As tensions rise and hidden resentments erupt, Tunde must choose between family honor and the woman he loves. With every moment, the risk of losing everything grows, and what should be a celebration turns into a battle for dignity and true love.

On New Year’s Day, my cousin slammed his BMW key on the table, daring anyone to match his pride in a high-stakes card game. With my fiancée’s wedding gold and our future apartment on the line, I risked everything to defend my family’s dignity after he disgraced my father in front of everyone. As the stakes soared—money, houses, even bride price—one wrong move could destroy my love, my home, and my father’s honour forever.

After ten hard years as a househelp, Ifeoma returns to her village with only her pride and dreams. When she’s faced with a marriage proposal from Musa—the so-called 'old bull' of a powerful, dramatic family—she must battle gossip, jealous co-wives, and her own fears to claim happiness. But in a world where bride price means everything, will love or tradition win?

Professor Obinna sacrificed everything for his daughter Ifeoma, showering her with gifts as bride price to secure her future. But betrayal from Ifeoma and her greedy in-laws shatter the family, leading to heartbreak, public disgrace, and a fight for dignity. Now, with shame hanging over their heads, Obinna must decide how far a father’s love should go—before it destroys everyone.

Trapped by a mother's deadly greed, a young man faces the haunting of his beloved sister, sacrificed for money and status. As family secrets turn into curses, he must survive a night where tradition, betrayal, and the supernatural collide. Will he escape his mother’s sins, or will the ghost bride drag him into the grave?

Wounded and disgraced, General Danjuma is forced into a royal marriage with bold, scandalous Nneka—the carpenter’s rejected daughter—by a king who once called him brother. Trapped in a loveless union and haunted by lost strength, Danjuma finds his cold heart warming for the one woman who refuses to bow to shame. But when the palace snatches Nneka away, he must risk everything for the only hope he has left—before the king claims her as the final price for his loyalty.

On the day our kingdom fell, my sister stripped herself of pride and purity, trading her own body to the ruthless rebel king just to save my life. Ten years later, she forces me into the palace as concubine to a forgotten prince, begging me to accept a quiet life—but my heart burns for revenge. I will destroy the Garba dynasty from within, even if it means betraying the only family I have left.