On a Platter of Blood

Excerpt

Apeja was never meant to be permanent.

For Akin—educated, artistic, and introverted—the remote village feels less like a calling and more like a sentence. Two years in, and he remains an outsider. The villagers have even given him a name: Alagba. He has yet to decide whether it is an honor… or a joke.

Then Nadine arrives.

Beautiful, sharp-tongued, and a bright vision by Apeja standards, Nadine is the last thing Akin expects—and the one person he cannot ignore. Between them, something begins to grow. Something honest. Something dangerous.

But Apeja has a way of unearthing what people would rather keep hidden.

When the village whispers and events begin to drag Nadine’s past into the light, Akin’s carefully sealed history is not far behind. What starts as a single, seemingly small mistake sets off a chain of events —threatening not just his ministry, not just his faith, but his very life.

In Apeja, no one remains a stranger for long.

And no one stays innocent.