The Thing Humans Call LOVE: Four women. Four stories. This same love matter.

Four women. Four stories. This same love matter.

In The Thing Humans Call Love, four women's lives expose the complications of romance, betrayal, desire, shame, and survival in Nigeria. From the boardrooms of Lagos to the deep forests of Anambra, this collection strips away the fairy tale and reveals love as something far more dangerous, comic, tender, and transformative.

Ujunwa thought she had locked her heart away after a devastating betrayal, only to find herself drawn to a charming younger man carrying a fatal secret.

Susan's perfect marriage begins to collapse when her husband's betrayal invites a ruthless obsession into their home, turning love, guilt, and control into a dangerous battleground.

Gloria is thirty, fiercely independent, and tired of waiting for her sexually adventurous boyfriend to take commitment as seriously as pleasure.

Lucinda, a wealthy and powerful executive, decides to rewrite the rules of courtship and vulnerability after heartbreak turns her softness into strategy.

Moving between dark psychological tragedy and sharp romantic comedy, The Thing Humans Call Love asks one unyielding question:

How much of ourselves are we willing to lose for the thing humans call love?