Adorah Nworah

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror. From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent’s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors.

‘Magnificently horrifying’ Daily Mail ‘Gripping’ Glamour ‘Impressive and moving’ Irish Times ‘Unique, bold and unsettling’ Aiwanose Odafen ‘Claustrophobic and very disturbing’ Guardian ‘Unflinching, unforgettable’ Layne Fargo 'Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson' Amy Gentry My name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife. Young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her – about her education, her freedom, and the man she will marry. None of them are kept. Self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents’ kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is there to give them the grandson they’ve been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable. But she is no ordinary wife. Under the increasingly strained pressure of the Texas heat, desperation makes people do strange and violent things… 'Shines with a brilliance that will run through you clean as an arrow' Ukamaka Olisakwe 'Full of twists and sentences that will stun you. A book rich in surprises' Kemi Falodun

‘Magnificently horrifying’ Daily Mail ‘Gripping’ Glamour ‘Impressive and moving’ Irish Times ‘Unique, bold and unsettling’ Aiwanose Odafen ‘Claustrophobic and very disturbing’ Guardian ‘Unflinching, unforgettable’ Layne Fargo 'Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson' Amy Gentry My name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife. Young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her – about her education, her freedom, and the man she will marry. None of them are kept. Self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents’ kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is there to give them the grandson they’ve been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable. But she is no ordinary wife. Under the increasingly strained pressure of the Texas heat, desperation makes people do strange and violent things… 'Shines with a brilliance that will run through you clean as an arrow' Ukamaka Olisakwe 'Full of twists and sentences that will stun you. A book rich in surprises' Kemi Falodun

'Magnificently horrifying' Daily Mail'Gripping' Glamour'Impressive and moving' Irish TimesMy name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife.

"Twisted and intense, this marvelous debut novel transforms from a domestic drama into a story of secrecy and survival you can't put down." --The Philadelphia InquirerWhen Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All-American life: a handsome husband, a beautiful red-brick mansion in Sugar Land, pizza parlors, and dance classes. Desperate to please, she'll happily cater to her family's needs. But Ikemefuna soon discovers what it actually means to live with her in-laws. Demands for a grandson grow urgent, her every move comes under scrutiny, and the America she imagined from Nigeria shimmers almost as distantly through the locked windows of the Sugar Land house, unattainable. As Ikemefuna finds there's no way out, her new husband Nna, a corporate attorney, grapples with the influence of his parents against his own increasing affection for her, juggling their deeply traditional expectations with his own. As family secrets boil to the surface, Ikemefuna must decide how to scrape herself out of an impossibly sticky situation: a marriage succumbing to generational cycles of pain and silence. In the end, she may be carrying the greatest secret of all. An unforgettably delicious thriller, House Woman is about a woman trapped in a dangerous web of conflicting desires, melting in the Texas heat.