The book is a story of a young girl whose epic challenges bent her to a point of attempted murder. Bomas father was Head of Chancery at the Nigerian Embassy in Paris. Her promising life turned gloomy when her father eloped with his beau to America abandoning the family in France. Her mother later died of breast cancer at home in Nigeria. A scheming uncle tried to marry her to a wealthy Muslim fleet owner. The mans attempt to rape her resulted in Boma smashing his head with a whisky bottle. Fleeing from justice, Boma landed in the home of a university couple where she suffered indignities.
When Mintaah's attempts to get Pastor Essel to propose to her fail, she plans to seduce him so that he will impregnate her. Thus, one evening, when she sees a man coming to Pastor Essel's room from afar, she goes to lie in his bed half naked, and closes her eyes and covers her face with clothes because she cannot look at Pastor Essel's face while she makes love with him. When the man enters the room, and sees Mintaah half-naked in the bed, he is carried away by lust and makes love to her. But unknown to Mintaah, the person she has seduced is not Pastor Essel, but his twin brother, Bentil who is the exact resemblance of Pastor Essel. All along, Mintaah does not know that she has seduced the wrong person, but goes home thinking that she has succeeded in seducing Pastor Essel. As time elapses, Mintaah becomes pregnant and mentions Pastor Essel as being responsible for the pregnancy. What will happen with Mintaah, Bentil, and Pastor Essel as the story unfolds?
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