Product Description: Ericka Kane's father Karl Kaine is on his deathbed and her stepmother Priscilla Kane has control over his estate and she doesn't plan to share any of it with Ericka. But if Ericka can help it, her stepmother won't have control for very long.

Starmaine Lassiter is sure she is too independent and successful in business to be happy with an African man until she meets a charming and mysterious Nigerian oil trader, who will not accept her efforts to reject him

A sophisticated collection of stories, in the same vein as Alice Munro, is told from varied perspectives that capture human suffering, including 'The Eight Sleeper of Ephesus,' in which a recluse begins writing angry letters to the editor of his estranged son's small town paper to form a connection to the outside world. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This fast-paced novel, by turns comic and moving, reveals what success and failure mean for the young Nigerian at home and in exile.