One love’s beginning. One city’s uprising. One nation’s reckoning. Eyinju serves the Oloja Egbin, a secret resistance fighting British rule and exploitation in Lagos. Ajadi serves the very power her people are fighting.

When the two fall in love, their relationship becomes entangled in the political dirt of a city struggling to decide its future.

As resistance turns increasingly dangerous and British power tightens its grip, Eyinju must choose between the cause she has served all her life and the man whose loyalties stand against everything she believes.

Their love could either bury decades of resistance or become part of the fight for freedom.

Inspired by Yoruba history and the turbulent birth of modern Nigeria, Love in Lagos’s Dirt is a historical novel of love and revolution, loyalty and betrayal, colonialism and resistance, where the greatest battle may be between what the heart wants and what freedom demands. Volume I — Fire and Water.